Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970

found: Work cat.: Matthiessen, P. Sal si puedes, 1969:p. 111 (On September 16, 1965 ... NFWA voted to support an AWOC strike.)

found: Taylor, P.F. ABC-CLIO companion to The American Labor Movement, 1993:p. 28 (Chavez, in 1962, founded the National Farm Workers' Association (NFWA). Three years later 1,200 members of the NFWA collaborated with the AFL-CIO Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) in a five year strike against California grape growers. The next year, the NFWA and the AWOC became the United Farm Workers (UFW)) p. 194 (The Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee moved in to lead a Delano, California, grape workers strike.)

found: Mooney, P.T. and Majka, T.J. Farmers and farm workers' movements, 1995:p. 155 (Once AWOC and the NFWA formed an alliance, the strike spread quickly. By early October dozens of table-grape operations in the southern San Joaquin Valley were being struck by 3,000 farm workers.)

found: Meier, M. Mexican American biographies, a historical dictionary, 1836-1970, 1988:p. 56 (After five years, the grape strike ended in July 1970 with three-year contracts for the workers.)

found: Cesar Chavez Chronology website, Aug. 6, 2001(1965, Sept. 16--On Mexican Independence Day, Cesar's NFWA, with 1,200-member families, votes to join a strike against Delano-area grape growers already begun that month by the mostly Filipino American members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (AWOC). Thus begins the five-year Delano Grape Strike.)

found: Reader's Guide, 1969-1971(in titles indexed under strikes and lockouts--Farm laborers: Grape strike; Delano grape strike, California grape strike)