United Farm Workers | The Fall | 3
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Caesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers
United Farm Workers was celebrating a string of victories in its nearly five-year campaign against Delano grape growers. Caesar Chavez attempted to extend the UFW's reach into other states but conservative politicians pushed back. The union purchased a 180 acre property in the foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains 30 miles east of Bakersville, California. In 1972 Chavez undertook a hunger strike to protest a new Arizona law that all but banned field workers from voting to unionize. After 24 days Chavez ended his fast at a memorial mass to honor the anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination.
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