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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 · October 26, 2026
I Am a Man: Memphis, 1968
Echol Cole and Robert Walker were killed on February 1, 1968, because they had no safe place to shelter from the rain. Black workers were not allowed in the cab. The city paid one month's wages and considered the matter closed. Thirteen hundred of their co-workers did not. The Memphis sanitation strike lasted 65 days, survived a mayor who refused to talk and a murder that stunned the world, and ended with a union. This is the last weekly of the year. It should be this one.
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