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The strike started Sept. 8, 1965 when Filipino grape workers walked out on grape growers in Delano, Calif., to protest years of poor pay and working conditions.
Maybe the brothers would be too young to understand the speeches at the 50th anniversary of the Delano grape strike, but when Flores, 53, was a 12-year-old carrying a United Farm Workers flag ...
In many ways, Filipino farmworkers and labor organizers had prepared for the Delano Grape Strike for decades. Dawn Mabalon, professor of history at San Francisco State University, says they’d been ...
It might have been more than a half-century ago, but the impact of the Delano grape strike will always be felt -- not only in Hispanic history, but labor history in general. On Sept. 8, 1965, a ...
The table grape strike succeeded where others had failed when Chavez, who led a well-publicized march from Delano to Sacramento in the spring of 1966, came up with a stroke of genius – the 1968 ...
That is the power in the Delano Grape Strike." It took five years of striking, plus an international boycott of table grapes, before growers signed contracts with the United Farm Workers.
Among them was Lorraine Agtang, who On Sept. 8, 1965, along with her family and other Filipino grape pickers, walked out of their fields to protest a pay cut from $1.40 to $1.25 an hour, a news ...
Lorraine Agtang, who participated in the 1965 Delano Grape Strike as a member of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, joined a panel discussion on the strike and its legacy, as well as ...
Union leader Larry Itliong in his office. After 50 years after the historic Delano Grape Strike which Itliong began, he is receiving recognition for the role he played in the farm labor movement.
It might have been more than a half-century ago, but the impact of the Delano grape strike will always be felt -- not only in Hispanic history, but labor history in general.