Caesar Chavez's Strategy of Non-Violence in the Delano Grape Strike

Chavez's NFWA was not funded by a large union like the AFL-CIO but Chavez used his organization's independence to his advantage improvising tactics. In many instances he drew heavily on the language of the Catholic church and accepted supportive priests like father Keith Kenny who also happened to be a licensed commercial pilot. As the strike dragged on Chavez's creative methods lured more workers out of the fields and into the picket lines. strikers became the frequent target of authorities judges issued injunctions against picket lines and law enforcement often arrested picketers sometimes on the thinnest of pretexts after one county sheriff threatened to arrest strikers because he was receiving noise complaints Chavez decided to instigate a confrontation with