On Saturday, a special event is being held in Delano, CA, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Delano grape strike.

Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927. He would grow to lead strikes and become one of the greatest US farm worker organizers of the 20th Century. This is a bonus episode of Stories of Resistance.

Sixty years after the historic Delano grape strike, which launched Chávez’s 280-mile march to Sacramento with Filipino American and Mexican American farmworkers, over 5,000 United Farm Worker ...

DELANO, Calif. (KERO) — Delano announced its plans to name a new park after Larry Itliong. Itliong lived in Delano and was a key figure in farm labor movements including the Delano Grape Strike ...

Johnny Itliong grew up in California's grape fields. His father Larry Itliong helped lead the Delano Grape Strike in 1965. Johnny came to StoryCorps to share stories about his dad with his own son.

The park is named after the 1,500 Filipino-American agricultural workers, or “manongs,” who participated in the Delano Grape Strike of 1965.

On March 31, also known as Cesar Chavez Day, unions and workers from across California converged on Delano, home of the historic Delano Grape Strike that began the struggle of the United Farm ...

The 91-year-old nurse and activist tended to farm labor leader Cesar Chavez and marchers during the first leg of the 280-mile Delano Grape Strike march in 1965.