Delano History

03/21/2017 The fight continues! Show your support comment ‪#‎SiSePuede‬!!!
03/21/2017 It’s up to us all to make sure it doesn’t happen. Let continue fighting for equality. Join us!! -> http://www.delanograpestrike.org/
03/21/2017 One social change begins it cannot be reversed!!!!
03/21/2017 “All Hispanics are connected to the farm workers’ experience.”
03/21/2017 What is freedom to you…how do you fight for?
03/21/2017 “You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore!”
03/21/2017 “Farm workers are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded” – Cesar Chavez
03/21/2017 “The boycott is the most nearly perfect instrument of nonviolent change.”
03/21/2017 Comment your thoughts!! What’s your motivation for change!?
03/21/2017 The choice is whether or not we’re going to keep fighting through the unpleasantness to achieve the change we want, or to give up and run away from it. – Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano
03/21/2017 God knows that we are not beasts of burden… – Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano
03/21/2017 Mostly Filipino grape pickers belonging to the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee led by Larry Itliong, Pete Velasco and PhilipVera Cruz begin the Delano Grape Strike in September 1965 and ask Cesar Chavez�s largely Latino union to join their picket lines.
03/21/2017 “The UFWs survival sent out a signal to all Latinos that we were fighting for our dignity, that we were challenging and overcoming injustice, that we were empowering the least educated among us, the poorest among us. �The message was clear: If it could happen in the fields, it could happen anywhere, in the cities, in the courts, in the city councils, in the state legislatures.” – Cesar Chavez
03/21/2017 “Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.” Cesar Chavez
03/21/2017 “You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.” -Cesar Chavez
03/21/2017 “We attacked that historical source of shame and infamy that our people in this country lived with. We attacked that injustice, not by complaining, not by seeking handouts, not by becoming soldiers in the War on Poverty. We organized!” – Cesar Chavez
03/21/2017 “Freedom is best experienced through participation and self-determination, and free men and women instinctively prefer democratic change to any other means.” – ‪#‎CesarChavez‬ ‪#‎Motivation‬
03/21/2017 Stanford University Libraries: Bob Fitch Photography Archive
03/21/2017 Duke University online exhibit: Long Live the Strike: Activism for Farmworkers’ Rights
03/21/2017 Walter P. Reuther Library Newsletter Fall 1998: La Causa P 1
03/21/2017 Historical Posters: Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.