num_pages: 172
description: *Discover the important history of Californias migrant workers and their strike for fair wages during the Delano grape strike in the 1960s*Learn about Latino civil rights activist Csar Chvez and Filipino-American labor organizer Larry Itliong*From Sibert award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner Here is the gripping story of the Grape Strike that stirred a nation as well as the rise of Latino civil rights activist Csar Chvez and the United Farm Workers of America. In the 1960s while the United States was at war and racial tensions were boiling over Filipino-American workers were demanding fair wages and decent living conditions in Californias vineyards. When the workers walked off the fields in September 1965 the great Delano grape strike began. Did the signing of labor contracts with growers in 1970 mean an end to the problems of the American field laborers or was it a short-lived truce? This nonfiction book for young readers follows the five-year long strike and also provides details about Csar Chvez and the United Farm Workers. Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimners riveting text complemented by black-and-white archival photographs and the words of workers organizers and growers tells the powerful history.
language: English
title: Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights
publisher: Calkins Creek