Cesar Chavez: Unionization For Farm Workers

One of the most well-known fights Mexican Americans engaged in during the 1960s was to secure unionization for farm workers. Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta started a national boycott on grapes in 1965 to encourage grape growers to recognize United Farm Workers with the help of the Delano, California union. In 1968 Cesar Chavez went on a hunger strike for 25 days while grape pickers also went on a strike. During this time, Senator Robert F. Kennedy visited the farm workers to show his support but it took until 1970 for the farm workers to prevail and that year, grape growers signed agreements acknowledging UFW as a union.
Later on in the 1960s the Mexican-American youth, of whom were inspired to take action by the farm workers’ strike in