In 1970, Chavez and the UFW won higher wages for grape pickers after a 5-year-long California grape strike. Chavez’s legacy lives on today. But that legacy is also complicated .

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 ...

San Antonio public health nurse tended to Cesar Chávez amid Delano Grape Strike march By Vincent T. Davis , Reporter/Columnist March 27, 2023 Dora Rodriguez Stahl after graduating from Incarnate ...

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.

Attention to the strike snowballed and a national TV special, “The Harvest of Shame,” exposed the conditions workers were subjected to. Soon, reporters were coming to Delano to speak with Chávez.

Nov. 20 (UPI) --The U.S. Labor Department inducted three Filipino labor leaders, who led California's Delano Grape Strike in 1965 to win higher wages and better working conditions for farmworkers ...

The park is named after the 1,500 Filipino-American agricultural workers, or “manongs,” who participated in the Delano Grape Strike of 1965. Manong is an Ilocano term that means older brother ...

Itliong lived in Delano and was a key figure in farm labor movements including the Delano Grape Strike during the 1960s. He died back in 1977 but some of his children still live in the area.