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Preceding the Delano grape strike was another grape strike organized by Filipino farm workers that occurred in Coachella Valley, California on May 3, 1965. [14] [15] Because the majority of strikers were over 50 years old and did not have families of their own due to anti-miscegenation laws (first overthrown in 1949), they were willing to risk what little they had to fight for higher wages.
The Stockton cannery strike of 1937, also known as the spinach riot, [1] was the bloody culmination of conflict between the Agricultural Workers Organization local and the California Processors and Growers in the San Joaquin Valley of California. [2] The riots of April 23, 1937, in which both sides were armed with clubs and firearms, began in ...
The California agricultural strikes of 1933 were a series of strikes by mostly Mexican and Filipino agricultural workers throughout the San Joaquin Valley. More than 47,500 workers were involved in the wave of approximately 30 strikes from 1931 to 1941.
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2016 Sacramento riot; Salinas Lettuce strike of 1934; San Diego free speech fight; San Francisco riot of 1877; San Luis Obispo Mardi Gras; Squatters' riot; Stockton cannery strike of 1937; Sunset Strip curfew riots
Sacramento, California, United States, has been an important location in the history of canning thanks to its situation on the intersection of major transportation routes and proximity to large fertile growing areas. Sacramento’s canning industry has prepared a large variety of agricultural products, but is best known for canned tomatoes ...
Orange fruit pickers, Santa Ana, Orange County, California, c. 1900 (California Historical Society collection at USC Libraries, CHS-154) The Citrus Strike of 1936 was a strike in southern California among citrus workers for better working conditions that took place within various cities within Orange County, such as Fullerton and Anaheim from June 10 to July 25.
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