Cesar Chavez

Delano Grape Strike Launches UFW Movement, Challenges Agricultural Corporations

1965-09-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

On September 8, 1965, Filipino American grape workers in the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee walked out on strike against Delano-area table and wine grape growers, protesting years of poverty wages and brutal working conditions, and asked Cesar Chavez’s National Farm Workers …

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Cesar Chavez Founds NFWA, Begins Farmworker Organizing Campaign

1962-09-30 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

In September 1962, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) to organize California’s agricultural workers, who had been systematically excluded from New Deal labor protections and faced conditions resembling debt peonage. Farmworkers endured poverty …

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