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Before Dolores Huerta became one of the most important labor organizers in American history, she was a schoolteacher in Stockton, California. Every morning, she watched...
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...
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...
In September 1962, Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez gathered farmworkers into a small hall in Fresno, California, to found the National Farm Workers Association —...
On September 16, 1965, Cesar Chavez stood before a gathering of farmworkers in a dusty hall in Delano, California, and called for a vote. Eight...
On September 8, 1965, Filipino grape pickers in Delano, California, walked off the fields. Led by Larry Itliong, these workers from the Agricultural Workers Organizing...