THE CHICANO MOVEMENT

CONDITIONS

• Farmworkers faced low pay
• Long hours
• Unsafe working conditions (pesticides)
• 1936 national labor relations act does not include Farmworkers, making it difficult to join unions
• Farmworkers did not have access to toilets or water

ACTIONS

• 14 million participate in Grape boycott
• Refused to work until needs were met
• In 1966, Cesar Chavez leads 300 mile march from Delano to Sacremento
• In 1968, Cesar Chavez goes on a hunger strike

OBSTACLES

• Bikers attack and jail strikers
• Police harmed and arrested thousands of farmworkers
• 2 farmworkers were killed

ACHEIVEMENTS

• Unsafe working conditions were made safer
• Farmworkers received higher wages
• A medical plan was made for the farmworkers
• Farmworkers gained access to toilets and water on farms