When my family migrated from New México to California in the late 1960s, César E. Chávez was in the midst of his crusade to gain labor rights for the farm workers who made fortunes for grape growers ...
Admit it: You hear the name “César Chávez” and your mind goes straight to farm-worker strikes and cheesy one-liners about boycotting grapes. Who knew that Chávez was linked to a series of gorgeous Pop ...
The Grape Strike : September 1965-July 1970. Huelga ; Showdown at DiGiorgio ; Out of the fields, into the streets ; The fast ; Please don't eat grapes ; Making history -- Growing pains : August ...
"In the winter of 1966, twenty-eight-year-old ex-marine Jon Lewis visited Delano, California, center of the California grape strike. He thought that he might stay awhile, then resume studying ...