![]() On the morning of March 17, 1966, nearly a hundred striking farmworkers, most of them Mexican American and Filipino, set out on foot from the small town of Delano, bound for the state capital in Sacramento roughly 300 miles to the north. In the spring of 1966, a small group of California farmworkers and their supporters captured the attention of the nation. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Jon Lewis Photographs of the United Farm Workers Movement. ![]() Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the National Farm Worker Association, stands in front of map of the 1966 march route.
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