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1st Edition
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- Artists
- Glaser, Milton
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 1969 | | Class: | Art Print | | Status: | Official | | Size: | 25 X 40.5 |
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In 1962, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla started a union called the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). The NFWA organized "huelgas" ("strikes"). There were many bitter and violent fights between the grape growers and the workers.
In 1968, Cesar Chavez organized a five-year "grape boycott," a movement that urged people to stop buying California grapes until farm workers had contracts insuring better pay and safer working conditions. The name of the union was changed to the United Farm Workers (the UFW) in 1974. In 1978, when some of the workers' demands were met, the boycotts of lettuce and grapes were lifted.
The quote reads:
“We are men and women who have suffered and endured much, and not only because of our abject poverty, but because we have been kept poor. The colors of our skins, the languages of our cultural and native origins, the lack of our formal education, the exclusion from the democratic process, the numbers of our men slain in recent wars—through all these burdens generation after generation have sought to demoralize us, to break our human spirit.†–Cesar Chavez
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