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On theer teaches a class strike of the mid1960s and their place in the larger civil rights movement. It eventually became the united arm workers. He describes the connection between the local history and the National Civil rights movement. Class is about 90 minutes. Tonight, we will be talking about the strike in the bigger larger context of u. S. History, labor history, civil rights history. In terms of logistics and how the evening will go, i will talk about the topic and say a few words about my own research and how i came to pursue a topic in civil rights history and we will talk about a d...

Who participated in the 1965 delano grape strike, joins a panel of historians to discuss its history and legacy as well as the early days of the Farmworkers Movement. California State University bakersfield and Bakersfield College cohosted this event. Its about 90 minutes. The next portion of our program is a Panel Discussion on the history and legacy of the grapestrike the str it is ani honor to have with us one of the heroes of theke. The grape strike. It is an honor to have with us one of the heroes of the strike, ms. Lorraine agtang. She and her family lived for years in the same farm labo...

Strike. She lived for years in the same farm labor camp outside of delano. She was 13 when the strike began in 1970, sheas won and her family went to work under union contract. They walked out on strike again. N 1973 she was the first manager of the retirement village that you saw that thelm near delano Farmworkers Movement built for elderly and misplaced filipino farmworkers in 1974. In 1970 five, with the passage of the Agricultural Labor relations act, they organized farmworkers from multiple ethnicities for the first elections. She has been a dedicated activist with the Farmworkers Movemen...

Let us pray. Dear chaplain conroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks for giving us another day. At the beginning of a new workweek, we use this moment to be reminded of your presence and to tap the resources needed by the members of this peoples house to do their work as well as it can be done. May they be led by your spirit in the decisions they make. May they possess your power as they steady themselves amid the pressures of persistent problems. May their faith in you deliver from them wear them down. All this week and through the week may they do their best to find solutions to pres...

Peaceful outcome on this front appears weak, not even remotely foreseeable. The reason is that republican members of congress are not responding to the National Election of last fall but to the election of their own districts. A Strong Majority of the districts voted against barack obama in november even as the overall population voted for him. This i believe is the cruel arithmetic that divides american politics. While the big cities have given the majority of the mandate the district by district vote in the suburbs and rural areas given the republicans their mandate to vote against obama and...