United Farm Workers | The Grape Strike | 2
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The Rise and Fall of the National Farm Workers Association
Three years after its founding the National Farm Workers Association had grown to over 1200 members founders Caesar Chavez Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla now believe the NFWA was strong enough to take on growers directly. The strike failed to gain support from the public so Chavez came up with daring tactics such as an airplane flyover of the great fields to spread their message. Soon the two unions would merge into a single powerful organization united farm workers but Chavez's growing celebrity would soon create riffs within UFW's leadership this is episode two the grape strike in 1965.
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