Susana Wittrock entered the fields more than a decade after the Delano grape strike. From ages 7 to 13 she picked grapes in the same California fields as workers who initiated the five-year strike ...

When my family migrated from New México to California in the late 1960s, César E. Chávez was in the midst of his crusade to gain labor rights for the farm workers who made fortunes for grape growers ...

Prologue : the car pool -- The founding. The territory -- The work itself -- Childhood as destiny -- The lay Catholic activist -- The alchemist -- The organizer in Oxnard -- Climbing the fence -- A ...

The Grape Strike : September 1965-July 1970. Huelga ; Showdown at DiGiorgio ; Out of the fields, into the streets ; The fast ; Please don't eat grapes ; Making history -- Growing pains : August ...