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The Bracero rrogram began. Mexican laborers migrated to the United states to work on farms. The term Bracero means worker who works with his arms. The Mexican Laborers (braceros) worked with a short handed hoe.
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Cesar Chavez joins the community service organization (CSO) He tries to convince the CSO members to hekp farm workers organize, he was unsucessful and resigned in 1962
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Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta established the NFWA. He walks through worker towns in California i effort to build membership.
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The first NFWA convention is held in an abandoned theater in fresno, CA.
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After JFK's assasination president Lyndon B Johnson takes office and appoints many Mexican Americans in government positions.
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The civil righs Act of 1964 was passed, it affected mexicans
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The Bracero program was brought to an end, but mexicans and mexican americans contiued to work the fields.
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Along with Filipino workers, 1,200 member families vote to join the strike. The 5 year Delano Grape Boycott begins.
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Chavez leads a peregrination from Delano,CA to the San Juaquin Valley. The march is of 100 workers and it is 25 days of walking. The purpose of this was to bring attention to the treatment farm workers recieved.
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after a meeting with growers and compromises are met the boycott is over.
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with help of Jose angel Gutierrez, about 10,000 students participate in a student walk out. The student's demands are met
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the use of pesticide is regulated
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The California Labor Relations act is passed. this was the first law that protecteed laborers
