Remembering Nan Freeman 54 years after the young Jewish woman gave her life for farm workers
January 25, 2026
January 25, 2026
KEENE, California, Jan. 25 [Category: Union] -- The United Farm Workers issued the following news release:
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Remembering Nan Freeman 54 years after the young Jewish woman gave her life for farm workers
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Fifty-four years ago at 3:15 a.m. on Jan. 25, 1972, Nan Freeman, 18, a native of Wakefield, Massachusetts and a student at New College in Sarasota, Florida, was picketing with striking farm workers at the Talisman Sugar Plant on U.S. Hwy. 2 . . .
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Remembering Nan Freeman 54 years after the young Jewish woman gave her life for farm workers
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Fifty-four years ago at 3:15 a.m. on Jan. 25, 1972, Nan Freeman, 18, a native of Wakefield, Massachusetts and a student at New College in Sarasota, Florida, was picketing with striking farm workers at the Talisman Sugar Plant on U.S. Hwy. 2 . . .