The Farm Worker Movement
The Farmworkers' Movement - Equal Justice Initiative
Chavez led nonviolent labor strikes and weeks-long fasts; protestors faced violence, arrest, and prosecution. The movement established workers' right to ...
The Farm Worker Movement | PBS LearningMedia
Farm workers play a crucial role in feeding the nation and ensuring the viability of commodities, yet they have suffered extremely poor working conditions ...
UFW History - United Farm Workers
UFWOC, as Chavez had envisioned, had become both a union and a civil rights movement, and this was the key to its success. The dual character of the farmworkers ...
1962: United Farm Workers Union - A Latinx Resource Guide: Civil ...
Through a series of marches, national consumer boycotts, and fasts, the United Farm Workers union attracted national headlines, gained labor contracts with ...
The Farm Worker Movement, and Its Legacy
Cesar and Dolores' effort to organize and unionize farm workers can be traced back to San Francisco in 1962 where Cesar approached Dolores with ...
Beyond the Legend: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers Movement
A movement that would result in the creation of United Farm Workers and the first contracts for farm workers in the state of California in 1970.
Thirty Years of Farmworker Struggle (U.S. National Park Service)
The most common form of farmworker protest was the strike. By walking ... labor movement in the United States. But without the legally ...
César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and the United Farm Workers
Embracing the principles of nonviolence that Martin Luther King Jr. endorsed, the groups staged strikes and protests. In addition, they organized a successful ...
United Farm Workers - Wikipedia
United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just · United Farm Workers ( · (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. · National Farm ...
Farmworker Movement Documentation Project - Primary source ...
Primary source accounts: photographs, oral histories, videos, essays and historical documents from the United Farm Worker Delano Grape Strikers and the UFW ...
Farmworker Movement Collection
The farmworker movement of the 1960s and 1970s forged a broad coalition of workers, students, activists, and religious allies that won most of its early ...
The farmworker movement of the 1960s and 1970s forged a broad coalition of workers, students, activists, and religious allies that won most of its early battles ...
United Farm Workers History and Geography
When ethnic Mexican farm workers led by Cesar Chavez joined with Filipino American workers led by Larry Itliong in 1965 to strike grape growers in Delano, ...
A New Era of Farmworker Organizing - National Park Service
Larry Itliong organized thousands of farmworkers, first for the Agricultural Workers ... The Politics of Insurgency: The Farm Worker Movement in ...
An American hero, Chavez led the non-violent movement in the mid ... NFWA later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing ...
Farmworkers and the Struggle for Humane Working Conditions
The history of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is closely tied to the rights of the farmworker movement. In the 1960s, Robert F. Kennedy joined Cesar Chavez ...
Women of the Farmworkers' Movement - PBS
Documentaries and information about women who have spoken out for farmworkers' and agricultural laborers' rights.
Farm Workers Movement & Untold Stories - Research Guides
This episode focuses on farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who instigated one of the American farm labor movement's finest ...
Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement
The formation of the United Farm Workers (UFW) in 1965, under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, redefined farm labor activism and contributed to a ...
UFW – The Official Web Page of the United Farm Workers of America
Movement Offices · Jobs & Volunteers · UFW Store · Donate · English · Español · Home ... WA farm worker vigil to support #BuildBackBetter. View ...