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Timeline of Cesar Chavez 2 - Timeline Help
Timeline of Cesar Chavez part 2 of 4 from 1962 to 1970 at Timeline Help.
Timeline of Cesar Chavez 2
1 3 4 | - 1962 Sep 30
- 1964
- 1965 Sep 16
- 1966 Mar 16
- 1966
- 1967
- 1968 Feb 14
- 1968 Mar 14
- 1968 - 1970
- 1969 May 10
- 1969
- 1970 | First NFWA convention in Fresno, California.
Publishes El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker, the official newsmagazine of the NFWA.
Thousands of Filipino and Mexican NFWA members and Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee start the Delano Grape strike and a boycott campaign against grape growers in Delano, and will last for five years. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality support the campaign. Cesar leads a strike of flower workers in McFarland, California, to advocate for higher wages. One of the first public actions in this timeline of Cesar Chavez that gets nationwide attention.
Leads 75 people in a 250-mile Peregrinacion - or Pilgrimage - march from Delano to Sacramento, California, to call attention on the mistreatment and suffering of farm workers.
Some grape companies sign a genuine union agreement with NFWA after strikes and boycotts.
The National Farm Workers Association and the Filipino American Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee merge into the United Farmworkers Organizing Committee UFWOC.
UFW-strike at the Giumarra Vineyards Corporation in California. When other grape growers allow Giumarra to use their labels, the UFW launches a national, and later an international boycott of California grape growers.
Begins his historic 25 day first hunger strike to stop violence against strikers.
Rally of 8,000 farm workers when Cesar breaks his fast.
Leads a national boycott of California table grape growers to protest pesticide poisoning of farm workers, called La Causa, 17 million Americans support him.
The UFW declared this day the International Grape Boycott Day.
Chavez, Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Senator Walter Mondale march from the Coachella and Imperial Valleys to the United States-Mexico border against the use of illegal Mexican immigrants to break the strike. California table grapes cargo are stopped in Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Montreal and Toronto. Chavez pickets the US Food and Drug Administration against pesticides.
Californian grape growers sign three-year contracts with the UFW after a mass strike and a nationwide boycott of both grape and lettuce. But Salinas Valley vegetable growers sign agreements with the Teamsters Union.
| Bibliography of Timeline of Cesar Chavez 2 Shaw, R (2008). The UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century.
Olmstead, M (2005). Biografias Hispano Americanas.
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