When the Harvest Workers Found Their Voice

On September 30, 1962, roughly 150 farm workers and their families crowded into a hall in Fresno, California, for a gathering that would reshape American labor history. Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez had spent months driving through the San Joaquin Valley, knocking on doors in labor camps, sitting at kitchen tables with families who earned as little as seventy cents an hour picking grapes and lettuce.…