What is Delano grape strike?
The '''Delano grape strike''' was a [[strike action|strike]] organised by the [[ Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee]] against table [[grape]] growers in [[Delano, California]] due to the bad treatment of farm workers. The strike started September 7, 1965<ref name=GoW2015>{{cite news |last=Morehouse |first=Lisa |date=19 September 2015 |title=Grapes Of Wrath: The Forgotten Filipinos Who Led A Farmworker Revolution |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/16/440861458/grapes-of-wrath-the-forgotten-filipinos-who-led-a-farmworker-revolution |work=Food for Thought |publisher=National Public Radio |access-date=3 September 2018 |quote=Because it was here that, on the night of Sept. 7, 1965, farmworkers — almost all Filipino — voted to go on strike the next day. }}</ref> and ended July 1970.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |chapter=Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement |url=https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-217 |encyclopedia=American History |date=May 2016 |publisher=Oxford Research Encyclopedias |author=Matt Garcia |title=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.217 |isbn=9780199329175 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-stub}} [[Category:Labor]] [[Category:History of California]] [[Category:Agriculture in the United States]] [[Category:History of agriculture]]