Wages Crying Out from the Vineyards

On September 8, 1965, Filipino grape workers walked off the vineyards of Delano, California. Led by Larry Itliong, they refused to keep harvesting table grapes for wages that left their families hungry — stooping under a brutal sun with no shade, no clean drinking water, and pesticide dust drifting over them as they worked. Eight days later, Cesar Chavez and the National Farm Workers Association voted to join them.…