Fifty years ago, a historic strike in California's Central Valley vineyards set in motion the most significant campaign in modern labor history: the farmworker movement. While the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez are widely known for leading the Delano Grape Strike and prompting an international boycott of table grapes, the origins of that movement are rarely discussed. On the night of Sept. 7, 1965, farmworkers voted to go on strike the next day. They were almost all Filipino.
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