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The History of the National Farm Workers Association
Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla formed the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. Itliong was part of a wave of unmarried young Filipino men called the Monongs who soon became a major part of the Agricultural Labor Force on the West Coast. In 1965, he called for a strike against seven vineyards in California's Coachella Valley,. A thousand grape pickers joined the action making it one of the largest strikes of its kind in history.
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