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Social and Political Movements of the 1960s: Migrant Workers Strike

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Todd Bruns, Eastern Illinois University

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Fall 2014

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Migrant Worker Rights: Led by migrant worker César Chávez, the migrant worker rights movement modeled itself on the civil rights movement. Chávez organized the National Farm Workers Association (later renamed the United Farmworkers Union), and launched campaigns to organize grape farm workers and a boycott of grapes. These protests of the harsh working conditions that migrant farm workers experienced led eventually to the Californian Agricultural Labor Relations Act. Curator: Todd Bruns