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 and ended July 1970.

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.