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Resistance
Motivations for the Delano Grape Strike: Supporting Question 2
This lesson explores the question, “What motivated farm workers in Delano, CA, to go on strike in 1965?"
Building and Sustaining Unity in the Farm Workers Movement: Supporting Question 3
This lesson explores the question, “What strategies did farm workers use to build and sustain unity during the Delano grape strike?”
Building Support for the Farm Workers Movement: Supporting Question 4
This lesson explores the question, “How did the farm workers movement gain popular support from people across the country in the 1960s?”
Summative Assessment & Taking Informed Action
This lesson culminates the Sowing Change inquiry with a C3-aligned Summative Performance Task and Taking Informed Action project.
Inquiry Blueprint | Sowing Change Inquiry: The Delano Grape Strike and Boycott
This blueprint provides an at-a-glance view of the Sowing Change inquiry.
Map of California Produce and Migrant Farm Work Patterns
This map shows the relationship between the migration patterns of farm workers and where different types of California produce are grown.
California Agricultural Labor (1860s-1960s)
This timeline documents significant events and societal shifts that impacted California agricultural labor between the 1860s and 1960s.
How the Delano Grape Strike of 1965 Began
This video clip from the film Delano Manongs tells the story of how a group of Filipino farm workers led by Larry Itliong started the Delano grape strike.
Filipino Experiences within the Farm Worker Movement
This video and accompanying guide explore why Filipino farm workers felt sidelined during and after the Delano grape strike.
Farm Working Conditions in 1960s California
This set of readings draws on various historical sources to depict the living and working conditions migrant farm workers faced in 1960s California.
El Plan de Delano (the Plan of Delano)
The National Farm Workers’ Association created this document that circulated among farm workers articulating the goals of the Delano grape strike.
