Led by farm labor leader Cesar Chavez, field workers took on lettuce growers on Aug. 23, 1970.

When famed farmworker photographer David Bacon started working for the United Farm Workers as an organizer in the 1970s, people asked what he — a “white boy” who “didn’t speak Spanish” or “know ...

Cesar Chavez, the labor organizer and champion of farmworker rights, has been accused of sexually abusing two girls in the 1970s, and Dolores Huerta, his co-founder of the United Farm Workers, ...

NMAH copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued ...