la rossa served as the voice from americans since the late 1960s. this item, this book is actually a cook book called cesar salads. you could see the play on caesar salads and this came out in support of the american farm worker's strikes in the '70s. so at that time lettuce was being boycotted and so the cook book on salads does not include lettuce. cesar chavez wrote the foreword himself for this book. this represents the wilcox collection and these collections are made up of materials that are usually thrown away. they're mailings and flyers you pick up on the street and that is one of the values of the collections is that they represent things that are oftentimes not kept. a lot of that work was done by laird himself. you can see that on some of the items there is the wilcox collection stamp with the date. this was received in july of 1986. and so laird acquired this probably through writing to the organization and requesting their materials. because the wilcox collection has been around for 50 years, it really can -- does document a long span o