Delano grape strike
The Delano grape strike was a strike organised by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee against table grape growers in Delano, California due to the bad treatment of farm workers. The strike started September 7, 1965[1] and ended July 1970.[2]
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- ↑ Morehouse, Lisa (19 September 2015). "Grapes Of Wrath: The Forgotten Filipinos Who Led A Farmworker Revolution". Food for Thought. National Public Radio. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
Because it was here that, on the night of Sept. 7, 1965, farmworkers — almost all Filipino — voted to go on strike the next day.
- ↑ Matt Garcia (May 2016). "Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. American History. Oxford Research Encyclopedias. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.217. ISBN 9780199329175.
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