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Latest history · Postwar
The Manongs Called the Strike: Delano, September 8, 1965
On the morning of September 8, 1965, roughly a thousand Filipino farmworkers walked off ten Delano-area vineyards. Larry Itliong called the strike. The standard telling of the Delano Grape Strike begins eight days later, with Cesar Chavez. That telling is wrong.
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This week · September 14, 2026
She Built the Boycott. Then She Sat Down and Closed the Deal.
Everyone knows the UFW won the grape boycott. Almost no one knows who sat across from the growers in the summer of 1970 and closed the contracts. It was Dolores Huerta, the same woman who had spent four years building the consumer boycott infrastructure that made the growers' position untenable. This is about the room, not the march.
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