As they passed through the dusty highways and farming communities of the Central Valley, they were joined by student activists, union organizers, civil rights workers, and members of the clergy, all drawn to the remote regions of California in support of the farmworker struggle.įor six months, the farmworkers had been on strike. 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 280 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 stands in front of a map detailing the route of the 1966 march.
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