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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 ...
Filipino labor organizer, Larry Itliong, a cigar-chomping union veteran, organized a group of 1500 Filipinos to strike against the grape growers of Delano, California, beginning a collaboration ...
A Labor Day story of migrant farmworker Larry Itliong’s fight for better conditions In 1965, Filipino-American labor organizer Larry Itliong helped lead the Delano grape strike and boycott for ...
César Chavez’s fasting room during the 1968 Delano, CA, grape strike. From Marked, Unmarked, Remembered by Andrew Lichtenstein. Andrew Lichtenstein From Marked, Unmarked, Remembered by Andrew ...
which told the story of the manong workers who joined the Delano Grape Strike of 1965 that led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union. While many people are familiar with Cesar Chavez’s ...
The leader of the Delano County grape strike told students yesterday to invite Senators and Congressmen to Harvard and "put them on the spot," by asking them embarassing questions about the ...
A black bumper sticker with the United Farm Workers logo and bright orange text reading, "boycott grapes." This was likely designed in support of the Delano Grape Strike of 1965-1970.