Part one of term paper
In this small town in the San Joaquin Valley -- California's fruit basket -- Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta joined forces in 1962 to found , later known as the United Farm Workers (UFW). Delano is still the organization's headquarters. As Mexican-Americans born to parents who did manual labor, Chavez and Huerta were no strangers to hard wo ...

Part two of term paper
... minimum wage while doing hard stooping labor all day in the fields. These are the conditions the UFW fought to better. In turn, growers argued they needed cheap labor to turn a profit. Major targets of the UFW were California growers of table and wine grapes. In 1965, the UFW with the AFL-CIO led a five-year boycott of table grapes, urging shoppers throughout the country not to buy or eat grapes. In 1970, as a result of the boycott, many growers signed contracts with the UFW. However, vegetable ...