PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Black Panthers
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SCLC
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UFW
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Detailed explanation-1: -United Farm Workers (UFW), in full United Farm Workers of America, formerly National Farm Workers Association, U.S. labour union founded in 1962 as the National Farm Workers Association by the labour leaders and activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
Detailed explanation-2: -NFWA later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), which continues to protect the interest of food and farmworkers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Through a series of marches, national consumer boycotts, and fasts, the United Farm Workers union attracted national headlines, gained labor contracts with higher wages and improved working conditions, galvanizing the Chicano movement.
Detailed explanation-4: -Begun in 1962 by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Gilbert Padilla, and other early organizers, the United Farm Workers of America is the nation’s first enduring and largest farm workers union.
Detailed explanation-5: -Dolores Huerta remains an activist for social justice today. In 2012, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama. Huerta’s contributions toLa Causa (the cause of farm workers rights) were many.