Biography
Fred Barreras was a member of Mine-Mill Local 890 jailed for 90 days for defying an anti-picketing injunction during the 1950s Empire Zinc strike at Bayard, New Mexico — the strike dramatized in the film Salt of the Earth. Mexican-American miners and their families sustained the picket line in defiance of the courts.
Photo: Chicano Research Collection, Hayden Library; Bayard, New Mexico, 1951; via Barriozona. Original-image crop; identified by the source (fourth from left). Source: https://barriozona.com/the-union-community-organizing-and-civil-liberties-clinton-jencks-salt-of-the-earth-and-arizona-copper/ . Copyright status unconfirmed; used for educational biographical identification at the site owner's direction. No permission or open license claimed.
