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Preceding the Delano grape strike was another grape strike organized by Filipino farm workers that occurred in Coachella Valley, California on May 3, 1965. [14] [15] Because the majority of strikers were over 50 years old and did not have families of their own due to anti-miscegenation laws (first overthrown in 1949), they were willing to risk what little they had to fight for higher wages.
While Itliong began his organizing efforts shortly after he arrived in America, participating in walkouts and fighting for fair labor contracts, he was best known for the Delano grape strike of 1965.
Modesto "Larry" Dulay Itliong (October 25, 1913 – February 1977 [a]), also known as "Seven Fingers", [3] was a Filipino-American union organizer.He organized West Coast agricultural workers starting in the 1930s, and rose to national prominence in 1965, when he, Philip Vera Cruz, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco, walked off the farms of area table-grape growers, demanding wages equal to the ...
Delano grape strike: 1965–70 Delano, California: 10,000 [96] 1907 San Francisco streetcar strike: 1907 San Francisco, California: 10,000 2021 John Deere strike: 2021 Nationwide 10,000 [50] Goodyear strike: 1948 Akron, Ohio: 10,000 Pacific Northwest lumber strike: 1935 U.S. Pacific Northwest: 10,000 1907 New York City rent strike: 1907 New ...
A strike against the grape growers in Delano, California, that began in 1965 represented a major victory. It lasted for five years. and workers endured a 340-mile march from Delano to Sacramento ...
It was 1965 and throngs of Filipinos and Mexican workers walked out from their jobs in the grape fields of Delano, protesting unfair wages and unjust treatment and demanding the right to unionize.
Key moments in the movement include the Delano Grape Strike and the founding of the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) at UC Berkeley. The post-World War II baby boom led to a generation of college-aged Asian Americans in the 1960s and 1970s, many of whom participated in social and political movements such as the Civil Rights Movement ...
One song that Huerta remembers fondly is “Huelga en General” (“The General Strike”), which was written by Luis Valdez and became popular during the Delano grape strike in 1965.