Now showing
Delano Strikers March
About this film
B&W; sound;?Scenes from large Farm Workers' rally in Sacramento, California at culmination of march to State Capital.Five speeches. Two by Chavez (first speech by Chavez in Spanish and then in English. Second speech (Dolores Huerta): outlining United Farm Worker's plans, including pledge to support themselves internally; a promise of more strikes by farm workers; a demand for a Collective Bargaining Agreement Law, backed up with the threat of a general strike. First interview (Chavez): covers the meaning of this particular strike and the promise of a national union. Second interview (Drake): cites grass-roots nature of movement; 10,000 people organized in 103 cities to boycott Schenley Liquors (successful); promises similar boycott, starting this day, against Di Giorgio Liquors. Third Speech (Mel Wax interview with Cesar Chavez. Fourth speech: talks about the language of the picket line. Fifth speech (Chavez): talks about victory with humility; thanking the AFL-CIO, AWOC, Teamsters, Churches, CSO, Mexican-American Political Association, civil rights movement; longshoremen; Discusses boycott of Schenley Industries; boycott organization and effect on Schenley's image; Schenley's incr…
Directors & creators
KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
Subjects
Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers, UFW, Delano grape strike, farmworkers, labor movement, Sacramento march, AFL-CIO, Schenley Industries boycott, DiGiorgio boycott, Chicano movement, Mexican American labor, KQED, 1966 California, collective bargaining
More from this pool