When famed farmworker photographer David Bacon started working for the United Farm Workers as an organizer in the 1970s, people asked what he — a “white boy” who “didn’t speak Spanish” or “know ...

The artifacts serve as time capsules for an entire generation of “manong” workers and they’re now displayed at the National ...

Last week’s premiere of the Cesar Chavez biopic was celebrated by Chicanos and non-Chicanos alike, but another Filipino-American activists felt that the film falls short of accurately depicting their ...

Thirty-five years after Cesar Chavez started his famous effort to help poor California farmworkers, relatives invoke his name to raise millions of dollars for a dozen or so tax-exempt organizations ...

Birth of a movement -- Capitalism in reverse -- Workers of the world, unite! -- Stuck in the middle -- A bitter harvest -- Busy dying -- Rotting from the inside out -- Some were more equal than others ...

Chavez noted his grandfather delivered an address to The City Club of Cleveland in 1969 titled “The Grape Boycott.” In an attempt to organize grape pickers, Cesar Chavez coordinated a nationwide ...

When my family migrated from New México to California in the late 1960s, César E. Chávez was in the midst of his crusade to gain labor rights for the farm workers who made fortunes for grape growers ...

Share By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read Matt Garcia is the author of From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement . Evan Kleiman host 'Good ...

Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm systems around the world are inexorably linked to one another. We witnessed ...

Bottleneck Project is proud to announce that it has received a grant from Farm Aid, the national organization dedicated to strengthening family farm agriculture. The project seeks to reduce the local ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. The Rancher Nation and Its Discontents. The Law of the Jungle: Power and Society in the Coachella Valley, 1945-65 ; The Known World: Fragments ...