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The National Farm Workers Association
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In this small town in the San Joaquin Valley -- California's fruit basket -- Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta joined forces in 1962 to found , later known as the United Farm Workers (UFW). Delano is still the organization's headquarters.
As Mexican-Americans born to parents who did manual labor, C ....
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....success is partly due to advocating principles of nonviolence as expressed by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1968, Chavez fasted for 25 days to emphasize the farm workers' nonviolent commitment.
Life for farm workers today is somewhat better, and the UFW continues to focus on new concerns, such as health hazards from pesticides used to spray crops, which are thought to cause cancer in the workers and their children.
Chavez died in his sleep in 1993. He was 66.
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