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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.
In 1970, union leaders and grape growers signed labor contracts ending the grape strike at Reuther Hall; the contracts unionized over 70,000 farmworkers working in the grape industry. After the strike, Chavez moved the union headquarters to a new complex; The Forty Acres continued to function as a service center for farmworkers and a local ...
Delano grape strike: 1960s–1990: Various academics: South African universities: Apartheid: Academic boycott of South Africa: Various: South African produce: Apartheid [citation needed] 1966–1987: Various: Coors Brewing Company: Anti-LGBT hiring practices Discrimination towards minorities and women Anti-unionism Coors strike and boycott [5 ...
Delano grape strike; G. Wave Hill walk-off; I. Irish bank strikes (1966–1976) N. 1966 New York City transit strike; S. St. John's University strike of 1966–1967; T.
By 1968 he was a student at the University of Houston, [4] where, spurred by the United Farm Workers and the Delano grape strike, he became involved in union organizing. [2] He joined the Mexican American Youth Organization, and campaigned for the Raza Unida Party, an offshoot that advocated for Chicano rights. [2]
Including recent and historical interviews with Huerta and her family members, the documentary includes historic film footage from the farmworker strikes and marches in Delano, California and New York City, the activism of the Delano grape strike that spread throughout the country, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's meetings with the organizers during ...
In Delano Diary; The Visual Adventure and Social Documentary Work of Jon Lewis, Photographer of the Delano, California Grape Strike, 1966-1968 (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), Street presents the work of Jon Lewis, a young photojournalist who produced an insider’s view of the Delano grape strike between 1966 and 1968.
1969–1970 General Electric strike; D. Delano grape strike; F. Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968; M. Memphis sanitation strike; S. St. John's University ...