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Delano Grape Strike and Boycott.

1965

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Filipinx and Latinx grape workers join together to protest poor pay and working conditions on the farms. Led by Cesar Chavez, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), and the National Farmworkers Association (NFWA), the workers picket and march 300 miles from Delano to Sacramento.

Drawing on the Montgomery Bus Boycott strategies, Chavez and the workers call for a grape boycott–the first in American history in a labor dispute.

The AWOC and NFWA will merge into the United Farm Workers (UFW) Organizing Committee in 1966. By 1970, the boycott will have succeeded and growers will sign union contracts promising better pay and conditions.