Marshall Ganz
Marshall Ganz
Marshall Ganz and Jessica Govea speaking at a meeting, Lamont, ca. 1966. Photo by Emmon Clarke.
Marshall Ganz, son of a rabbi and a teacher, was born in Michigan and grew up in Fresno and Bakersfield. He entered Harvard in 1960 and left the university to join the Mississippi Freedom Summer campaign in 1964. Back in California, in October 1965, his friend LeRoy Chatfield introduced him to César Chávez, and he joined the movement.
Ganz helped organize the 300-mile peregrination from Delano to Sacramento. He was a major organizer of the DiGiorgio campaign and the grape and lettuce boycotts. In July 1969, Ganz traveled to Toronto with Jessica Govea and Mark Day to spearhead a boycott office in the city that was the third-largest export market for California grapes. He was a national executive board member of the UFW from 1973 to 1981, when he left the union. After a decade of working on political and union campaigns in California, he returned to Harvard to finish his degree and he eventually completed his Ph.D. in Sociology.
Marshall Ganz and Jessica Govea speaking at a meeting, Lamont, ca. 1966. Photo by Emmon Clarke.
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