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The Great Cesar E. Chavez Sharon Bonilla Apr. 28, 2013
Grape boycott Ruth Tatlock Apr. 26, 2013
I didn't eat lettuce or grapes for years Luci Ungar Apr. 24, 2013
A grandmother with ambitious principles Kristin Mikkelson Jonsson Apr. 24, 2013
My Parents Karen Herrera Apr. 23, 2013
Racist experience and consequence Kelly Burch Apr. 23, 2013
My friend Cesar Jocelyn Sherman Apr. 23, 2013
You Need to Take Leadership Fran Kaplan Apr. 23, 2013
The Great Table Grape Boycott Lionel Ortiz Apr. 23, 2013
Grapeless in Paradise C. J. Erickson Apr. 23, 2013
A Life Long Respect Joy Byrd Apr. 23, 2013
Activist Online Margaret Morrison Apr. 23, 2013
No grapes for over 40 years Lillian Martinez Apr. 23, 2013
grape and lettuce boycotts Patrice Woeppel Apr. 23, 2013
Persistance richard alatorre Apr. 23, 2013
A Journey from the Inner City to the Fields of a Boycott Mo Quigley Apr. 23, 2013
Seeds Sown and Harvests Known: /My Life Dedicated to The Cause: Peace and Amnesty, Dignity, Respect, and Freedom Dawn Mary Mulderig Apr. 23, 2013
Called to live true KC Young Apr. 23, 2013
The Farmworker's Boycott for Better Conditions Herschel Dosier Apr. 23, 2013
1967 Carol Fred Apr. 22, 2013
A vato loco from Boyle Heights who saw the light throught the UAW. Rudy C. Montalvo Apr. 22, 2013
A vato loco from Boyle Heights who saw the light throught the UAW. Rudy C. Montalvo Apr. 22, 2013
A vato loco from Boyle Heights who saw the light throught the UAW. Rudy C. Montalvo Apr. 22, 2013
My children didn't know what grapes were! Judy Dubin Apr. 22, 2013
Telling his messages to students in the Bronx, NYC Prof. joan P Mencher Apr. 22, 2013
Telling everyone Lidia Serrata Apr. 22, 2013
Labor of Love phil pinto Apr. 22, 2013
Interview with Cesar Carolyn Rodriguez Apr. 22, 2013
Grape Free Georgia Roybal Apr. 22, 2013
Admiration for a peaceful fighter Elisabeth Jezierski Apr. 22, 2013
Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA Julie Johnson Apr. 22, 2013
Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA Julie Johnson Apr. 22, 2013
WRATH ABOUT GRAPES micheal smith Apr. 22, 2013
My Dad, me and Ceasar Clare Carter-Ortiz Apr. 22, 2013
Civil rights and dignity for farm workers and all people Susan Medina Apr. 22, 2013
Scab Grape Boycott 1969 Gerald Miller Apr. 22, 2013
One Stone, Many Ripples kathleen claudon Apr. 22, 2013
Boycott grapes Pamela Christensen Apr. 22, 2013
Si podemos. Ron Hale Apr. 22, 2013
Solidarity Donald Wallace Apr. 22, 2013
Ever Lasting Impression of Hope Emilia Maria Rodriguez Apr. 22, 2013
Lifelong food justice advocate Sanda Everette Apr. 22, 2013
helped poplitizice me... marce;p bermann Apr. 22, 2013
history Orinio Opinaldo Apr. 22, 2013
Pre Teen view Rosalinda Ramos Apr. 22, 2013
You Can Be A Part Of The Solution Or Part Of The Problem Willie Lopez Apr. 22, 2013
Marching at Sixteen Cathe' Fish Apr. 22, 2013
Marching at Sixteen Cathe' Fish Apr. 22, 2013
My second grade class and I Alice Newton Apr. 22, 2013
supported him whenever he asked vivian Blackstone Apr. 22, 2013
CESAR CHAVEZ AND ANIMAL WELFARE/RIGHTS Eric Mills Apr. 22, 2013
Union Strawberries Ellen Franzen Apr. 22, 2013
Did not buy or eat grapes Peggy McNulty Apr. 22, 2013
Awareness Deena Sortland Apr. 22, 2013
Cesar, Gandhi and King Ganapati Durgadas Apr. 22, 2013
Safeway Linda Miilu Apr. 22, 2013
A Childhood with no Grapes Lisa Dicksteen Apr. 22, 2013
Boycott Safeways Ann Hess Apr. 22, 2013
The Salinas Lettuce Boycott!! Patricia Ramirez Apr. 22, 2013
The house with no grapes! David Houlton Apr. 22, 2013
I Remember Linda Maya Caballero Caballero Apr. 8, 2013
Time Magazine Ronnie Jaffe Apr. 5, 2013
Time Magazine Ronnie Jaffe Apr. 5, 2013
Boycott Grapes Ronnie Jaffe Apr. 5, 2013
How Cesar Chavez Inspired me Maria Elena Durazao Apr. 5, 2013
Cesar Chavez and Teatro popular de la vida y muerte Robert Navarrete Apr. 2, 2013
Health & Family Specialist for Migrant Education Program Nicholas Ojeda Apr. 2, 2013
fellow inmate Carol Frances Jegen Apr. 1, 2013
Berkeley to Chicago to Honolulu Cheryl Ogawa Ho Mar. 31, 2013
No More Grapes! Carol Ng Mar. 31, 2013
Viva la Huelga Rachel Krug Mar. 31, 2013
DESTINE TO BE UNION. ANGEL ESQUIVEL Mar. 30, 2013
From a distance, then up close Susan Drake Mar. 30, 2013
A long road to Freedom Fr. Bill Leininger Mar. 30, 2013
A long road to Freedom Fr. Bill Leininger Mar. 30, 2013
A long road to Freedom Fr. Bill Leininger Mar. 30, 2013
A Movement to Always Remember Phillip Sanchez Mar. 30, 2013
The Button Man remembers Larry Fox Mar. 30, 2013
UAW's Walter Reuther & Hank Lacayo meet Cesar in Delano 1965 Hank Lacayo Mar. 30, 2013
Cincinnati Ohio - My first rally for UFW Cecilia Flores Mar. 29, 2013
Biggest Regret Teri Foster Mar. 29, 2013
Boycott Grapes Adele Pineda Mar. 29, 2013
From protester to enforcement to community give back Tom Duran Mar. 29, 2013
Still my hero Shirley Fisher-Baumann Mar. 29, 2013
Cesar Chavez Name lives on in Nebraska! Jose "Chato" Garcia Mar. 29, 2013
Immigrant Parents Robert Noyola Mar. 29, 2013
Immigrant Parents Robert Noyola Mar. 29, 2013
My meeting with a Great Chicano Commissioner Marcos de Leon Mar. 29, 2013
From picking crops to choosing words Jennie Montalvo Mar. 29, 2013
Cesar Gave Courage Sharon Ryals Tamm Mar. 29, 2013
Hola uvas! Daniel Benavides Mar. 28, 2013
Honoring The Legacy of Cesar Chavez With the Si Se Puede Spirit David Oddo Mar. 28, 2013
Guardian Angels Aimee Reedy Mar. 28, 2013
Moving from Charity to Justice Lucille Bates Mar. 28, 2013
Kindest person I ever met Rosalinda Martinez Mar. 28, 2013
An awakening Norah D Mar. 28, 2013
Arrested (and Political) Development Norah D Mar. 28, 2013
Fasting For Change Greta Benavides Mar. 28, 2013
My volunteer activities with the UFW Sara Leviten Mar. 28, 2013
My grandmother, the UFW activist Michelle Waters Mar. 28, 2013
Serving UFW Boycott House in Washington, DC Henry Montes Mar. 28, 2013
election in delano Mary Lou Carson Mar. 28, 2013
My first meeting and help from Cesar Chavez Rafael Arreola Mar. 28, 2013
!968 manny moreno Mar. 28, 2013
UFW joanna Economakos Mar. 28, 2013
Kern County Jail with Caesar Chavez Dr. (Rev.) Ronald Eastwood Mar. 28, 2013
No uvas para nosotros! Kathleen O'Connell Mar. 28, 2013
No uvas para nosotros! Kathleen O'Connell Mar. 28, 2013
"We don't know that" Michael Rice Mar. 28, 2013
Solidarity Señorita Garza Mar. 28, 2013
Working Side-By-Side Jacquelyn Ramsey Mar. 28, 2013
Gallo Wine Leslie Malcolmson Mar. 28, 2013
PODER DEMANDS BETTER LIVING CONDITION FOR NYS FARMWORKERS Alberto Cappas Mar. 28, 2013
Early in 1965,66,67 thru 72 Marco Antonio Sanudo Mar. 28, 2013
Boycott! Beverly Dahlen Mar. 28, 2013
Peaceful Resistance Sister Sylvia Sedillo, Sister of Loretto (SL) Mar. 28, 2013
I knew him… Edward Buendia Mar. 22, 2013
I knew him… Edward Buendia Mar. 22, 2013
Introduction to UFW Rosenda Ramos Mar. 18, 2013
Going door to door talking to supporters about the grape boycott with Cesar, Dolores & Martin Sheen Jocelyn Sherman Feb. 22, 2013
Union Member Roberto Sigmond Sep. 3, 2012
Cesar Chavez 1993 - A Poem Lucia Villareral Jun. 22, 2012
Alfredo Herrera Lupe Herrera Jun. 11, 2012
Mi Hermano / My Brother Lupe Berumen Jun. 9, 2012
Still working with Farmworkers Daniel Benavides Jun. 9, 2012
House Meetings at Charlie Kyle's school in Chicago, Stowe Arts Academy University Preparatory. Charles Kyle May. 19, 2012
This is my story Andres Chavez May. 18, 2012
The first time I heard of Cesar Andres Chavez May. 18, 2012
My story Andres Chavez May. 18, 2012
A Grandson's story Andres Chavez May. 18, 2012
CESAR AND ME (Rev.) Juan Romero May. 16, 2012
Familia de Ramon Lara Frances Alvarado May. 16, 2012
Connecting Life, Academic, and Activist Organizing to the UFW Jose Calderon May. 15, 2012
Following Dad and Supporting the UFW Robert Jr. Bustos May. 13, 2012
memories of Cesar cally ramos Apr. 29, 2012
What About The People? Ed Begley Apr. 29, 2012
Proud Chicano Louis Rocha Jr Apr. 28, 2012
El corrido de Donato Tapia ya se cabo... DONATO TAPIA Apr. 27, 2012
Colorado or Bust DANIEL ESQUIVEL Apr. 27, 2012
Launching the UFW (UFWOC) in Stockton, CA and Getting University "Credit" for It! Christopher/Cristobal Szecsey Apr. 26, 2012
TEAMSTER SUPPORT PAUL LATZ Apr. 16, 2012
Biggest Regret of My Life Teri Foster Apr. 15, 2012
"La vida de un Campesino Tejano/Del Rio, Texas/San Felipe-1960's" Ricardo Chavira Apr. 15, 2012
La Raza mark flores Apr. 11, 2012
Viva La Causa Greta Benavides Apr. 11, 2012
La lucha continua Buddy Gottlieb Apr. 7, 2012
Longtime UFW Supporter Carla Musik Apr. 5, 2012
Teamster supporters of the UFW Mike Davis Apr. 5, 2012
CESAR AND ME (Rev.) Juan Romero Mar. 30, 2012
Real Housewives of Los Gatos Sue Shaw Mar. 30, 2012
My United Farm Worker Story by Julie Perren Shine Barker Julie Barker Mar. 28, 2012
Meeting Cesar Jesus Trevino Mar. 27, 2012
Family With Out Borders Si Se Puede! L Gallego Mar. 27, 2012
Sister Lettuce Rose Mary Meyer, BVM Mar. 25, 2012
Grape Boycott - San Francisco and New Orleans Joy Rothschild Mar. 22, 2012
silk screening for la causa VICTOR OCHOA Mar. 22, 2012
Alfredo and Juanita Herrera and their Children: Lupe, Fred, Isabel, Rosario, and Celestina the Boycott baby Lupe Herrera Mar. 21, 2012
A thirty minute "mano a mono" with Cesar Abrán Quevedo Mar. 21, 2012
Cesar Chavez my Godfather. Miguel Miranda Mar. 20, 2012
10,000 candles, held aloft by 10,000 hands in the Sacto Valley Night Richard montoya Mar. 19, 2012
Backyard Grapes! Norene Charnofsky Mar. 18, 2012
No More Grapes! Carol Ng Mar. 17, 2012
My Mom was hip Sharon Paltin Mar. 17, 2012
A young woman learns to organize Jean Hunt Mar. 16, 2012
Spiritual War of the Farmworker Lupita Cruz - Quintero Mar. 16, 2012
My Two Cents Dana Bellwether Mar. 15, 2012
Santa Barbara Teachers Supported the UFW Tom Martin Mar. 15, 2012
Pittsburgh PA Responds Molly Rush Mar. 15, 2012
The Kent State Grape Boycott Frank J. Mendiola Mar. 15, 2012
UFW EXPERIENCE Maria Salazar Mar. 14, 2012
ON The Line For The Farmworkers Eliot Kenin Mar. 14, 2012
Grapes Jen Davila-Prout Mar. 14, 2012
My years on the picket lines John Farley Mar. 14, 2012
Wheaties Yoli Gonzlaez Mar. 14, 2012
Learning about Labor struggles in agribusiness in CA during the sixties and seventies Jerry Warren Mar. 14, 2012
March to Sacramento, 1966 Grace Solis Mar. 14, 2012
Helping in the Office of UFW Angie Perez Bienfeld Mar. 14, 2012
EL SENOR MOISES Moses Longoria Sr. Mar. 14, 2012
First airplane flight Rachel Krug Mar. 14, 2012
When we were young in the Rio Grand Valley Janet and Robert Stevenson Mar. 14, 2012
Most Memorable Day John Romero Mar. 14, 2012
My Picketing Days Rudy Santistevan Mar. 13, 2012
When I was young Joseph Hancock Mar. 13, 2012
Boycotting and walking the supermarket picket lines in Atlanta, Georgia bill cavellini Mar. 13, 2012
My free family planning project in the central California valley Elizabeth Canfield Mar. 13, 2012
Back in the Day manny moreno Mar. 13, 2012
Boycott in Toronto, Ontario Canada Lester Brown Mar. 13, 2012
Not Enough Phyllis Drakeford Mar. 13, 2012
San Fernando Valley Friends of the Grape Strikers Roger Hollander Mar. 13, 2012
Joe Ortiz interviews Cesar Chavez on his radio show during Prop 22 campaign Joe Ortiz Mar. 13, 2012
food and clothing donations to the Farm Workers marc passen Mar. 13, 2012
Social Workers Union Helped UFWOC in the '60's Pearl Munak Mar. 13, 2012
Went from Los Angeles, Ca in bus and pickeded in Delano and have supported during 60,70,80,90, 2000-2012 Nina Diamante Mar. 13, 2012
Boycott Safeway in Salinas, California Patricia Ramirez Mar. 13, 2012
Will Watt and the UFW William Watt Mar. 13, 2012
First grape strike picket line in Washington, DC Jim Williams Mar. 13, 2012
A Sacrifice for the Good of the Cause Carol Adams-Ramos Mar. 13, 2012
In Support of the Farmworker Movement Max Martinez Mar. 13, 2012
Things I Didn't Talk About With Cesar Chavez John Jonik Mar. 13, 2012
In the Hollister, Gilroy, Salinas fields Ana gomez Mar. 13, 2012
My two cents Dave Kiebert Mar. 13, 2012
unending love for la causa Nora Guadalajara Mar. 13, 2012
Those were good days! jerry gaxiola Mar. 13, 2012
Teamster Families Showed Support John Miller Mar. 13, 2012
Si se Puede Clarita Trujillo Mar. 13, 2012
Picket lines, boycotts and International trade William Proctor Mar. 13, 2012
Boycott Beverly Dahlen Mar. 13, 2012
Our boycott Karen Husted Mar. 13, 2012
Supporting UFW 1960s and 1970s charles pratt Mar. 13, 2012
I was there when it all began David Carp Mar. 13, 2012
Union Grapes Lee Sanne Buchanan Mar. 13, 2012
Boston Connection Paul Healey Mar. 13, 2012
Children of Farm workers Mary Markus Mar. 13, 2012
Cesar Chavez inspired me! Jesus Rodriguez Mar. 13, 2012
farm worker JUANA GONZALEZ Mar. 13, 2012
union election--delano Mary Lou Carson Mar. 13, 2012
Never too Early Ethel Silverberg Mar. 13, 2012
Marching with Cesar Chavez at Sacred Heart Church!! marisa tregrossi Mar. 13, 2012
picket lines David Sookne Mar. 13, 2012
FROSTBITE for UFW TERRY TIERNAN Mar. 13, 2012
En Memoria de César Chávez 1927 - 1993 The Quest for Justice "Culturas, Espíritu, y Orgullo" Juan Francisco Lara Mar. 13, 2012
Joining the Boycotts Judith Deutsch Mar. 13, 2012
My daughters and I Helen Shane Mar. 13, 2012
Cesar Chavez and I marched together 1960's Civil Rights Era. Eusebia Luna Aquino-Hughes Mar. 13, 2012
At Least I Could Boycott Barbara Huszagh Mar. 13, 2012
The 60's Beatrice Calame Mar. 13, 2012
LE CAMPESINO ANTONIO BERNAL Mar. 13, 2012
A supporter at UF and in Canada B. Ross Ashley Mar. 13, 2012
A Mimi Story of Minimal Involvement Karen Stone Mar. 13, 2012
1965 and 1970 Maria Martinez Mar. 13, 2012
Standing at Safeway Abraham Entin Mar. 13, 2012
We boycotted our stores. Alison Robb Mar. 13, 2012
1970 Maria Martinez Mar. 13, 2012
Political Consciousness Dan O'Neal Mar. 13, 2012
Working under UFW contract Maria Salazar Mar. 10, 2012
Being a part of history Marc Grossman Feb. 28, 2012