History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1996 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
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The idea
In nineteen sixty-two Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded the National Farm Workers Association to organise migrant farm workers in California's fields.
In practice
Chavez's nonviolent campaigns for workers' rights, including a hunger strike, as the Yawp describes.
Where people slip
The bracero programme of unit twelve had brought Mexican labour to these same fields; Mendez and Hernandez of unit thirteen stand behind the movement.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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