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Cesar Chavez and the Fight for Safe Working Conditions
This video highlights Cesar Chavez's efforts to secure safer working conditions for farm laborers in California during the 1960s, focusing on the dangers of pesticide exposure. Learn about the historic strike and collaboration between...
Curated Video
Chicano Art Movement
The Chicano Art Movement was an explosion of Mexican-American culture that established a unique artistic identity in the United States - and raised up a new political voice.
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United Farm Workers (UFW) labor struggle
people march down street raising their fists in the air, chanting and carrying various flags and placard signs inscribed with Chicano power slogans (footage by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films). United Farm Workers (UFW) labor struggle on...
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Object of History: "El Corrido Del Cortito" (Ufw Protest Song)
Listen to the United Farm Workers Protest Song and read the lyrics, which describe the short-handed hoe workers used in the fields and the back pains endured as a result of their labor.
University of California
University of California Television: Ufw's Dolores Huerta: Las Generaciones
Co-founder of United Farm Workers, Dolores Huerta, is televised about her work with Cesar Chavez and migrant workers in California. She suggests a plan for economic justice in the United States. From 2002. [56:37]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Pt. 23: Chavez, Huerta, and United Farm Workers
On today's episode we discuss Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the United Farm Workers Union. This episode originally aired in November 2011.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics:civil Rights Since the Mid Twentieth Century: Farm Workers
On the podcast today: the farm workers' movement.
A&E Television
History.com: History Shorts: Dolores Huerta Organizes a Movement
While many know the name Cesar Chavez today, his most trusted lieutenant, Dolores Huerta, was just as vital to the Mexican farmworkers movement. [1:04]