While the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez are widely known for running the Delano Grape Strike and prompting an international boycott of table grapes, the origins of that movement are rarely ...

Picketing was in protest over the arrest of 29 persons at a Delano, California ... American farmworkers went on strike to demand higher wages for grape pickers Cesar Chavez’s UFW joined them.

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 ...

One aspect of the Cesar Chavez story remains largely overlooked: The key role that Filipino farmworkers played in launching the 1965 grape strike in Delano that led to the birth of the United Farm ...

His father Larry Itliong helped lead the Delano Grape Strike in 1965. Johnny came to StoryCorps to share stories about his dad with his own son. It's Friday, which is when we hear StoryCorps.

DELANO, Calif. (KERO) — Delano announced its plans to name a new park after Larry Itliong. Itliong lived in Delano and was a key figure in farm labor movements including the Delano Grape Strike ...

In 1965, Filipino-American labor organizer Larry Itliong helped lead the Delano grape strike and boycott for better wages and working conditions. It was the birth of the farmworkers labor movement ...

Jose Luis Chavez remembers watching the Delano Grape Strike. He was a young man living in Las Colonias, then a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Grand Junction. Jose Chavez, who once worked as ...

She drove a first-aid truck in the hot California heat, several blocks ahead of marchers on the Delano Grape Strike march. After parking, she ran back to the group and marched with them to the truck.

Why it matters: The Central California Valley — where Cesar Chavez once launched the Delano Grape Strike and Boycott — has one of the highest proportions of Latinos. Recent voting shifts in ...

WASHINGTON, United States — The forgotten Filipino heroes of the 1965 Delano grape strike, one of the biggest labor struggles in American history, are finally getting the recognition they ...

She organized the 500 workers at the Delano farm to strike with the UFW’s support. Eventually, they won a union contract, and Sanchez was elected as the union representative at her workplace.