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Chávez founded the NFWA with labor leader Dolores Huerta. The organization is dedicated to the rights of migrant workers, including a minimum wage, insurance, and collective bargaining. P.R
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Chavez starts El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker, the official newspaper of the NFWA. N.K.
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César was asked by Larry Itliong to support a grape stike started by a Filipino farm worker organization called the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. This boosted the the United Farm Workers of America under César's leadersip.
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Filipino grape pickers in Delano, CA. go on strike for higher wages and to protest unfair working conditions. The revolution for farmworker's rights begins. N.K.
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Chávez’s union joins the strike against grape
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The strikers marched 250 miles from Delano to Sacramento to present a list of their demands. Several grape companies agreed to sign a contract with the union. These were the first contracts for American farm workers.
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The NFWA and AWOC merge, forming the United Farm Workers (UFW) P.R.
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Senator Robert Kennedy supports the NFWA grape boycott.
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Chávez announces in Los Angeles, CA. plans for a worldwide boycott of California grapes. He travels to European countries to promote the boycott of California grapes and to gather support for farmworker's rights. N.K.
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Chavez leads a national boycott of California table grape growers, which becomes known as "La Causa." By the end of the boycott in 1970, 17 million Americans supported it, including many political and civil rights leaders including Robert Kennedy.
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Chávez goes on a 25-day hunger strike that attracts enormous national attention. The fast reaffirms his movement's belief in non-violence. N.K.
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The UFW signs a contract with the majority of California table grape growers, ending the strike. Chávez organizes a nationwide lettuce boycott. P.R.
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Chavez is jailed for defying a court order againt boycotting.
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A Bureau of Alcohol Firearms and Tobacco (ATF) agent reveals that his agency uncovered a plot to assassinate Cesar Chavez. The agent says his agency gathered evidence that agribusiness magnates in the San Joaquin contracted a leader of the Hell’s Angels to carry out the assassination. But the plot was delayed when the Hell’s Angel was arrested for another murder. N.K.
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Chávez undertakes a 24-day fast. P.R.
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The UFW organizes a lettuce growers strike. P.R.
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The California Labor Relations Act goes into effect, allowing farm workers the right to boycott and to collective bargaining. P.R.
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Chávez leads a 1,000 mile march through the Central Valley of California, in order to call attention to the union elections.
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Chavez announces that all general lettuce and grape boycotts are ended. N.K.
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Chavez announces a new grape boycott, due the excessive use of pesticides. N.K.
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UFW contracts expire and living and working conditions for farmworkers decline. A cancer cluster among children emerges in the agricultural community of McFarland, California. Ultimately, 11 children in a 6-block radius are diagnosed with cancer. N.K.
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Farmworker Juan Chamoya dies after he’s sprayed with pesticides while working in a field in San Diego. Female farmworkers report unexplained miscarriages. Other women farmworkers give birth to severely deformed children or children who develop cancer. N.K.
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Chávez undertakes a 36-day "Fast for Life" to call attention to the health hazards farm workers and their children face by exposure to pesticides. P.R.
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