Editing Cesar Chavez (section)

===Start of the Delano Grape Strike: 1965–1966===
In September 1965, [[Filipino American]] farm workers, organized by the [[Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee]] (AWOC), initiated the [[Delano grape strike]] to protest for higher wages. Chavez and his largely Mexican American supporters voted to support them.{{sfnm|1a1=Bruns|1y=2005|1pp=41–43|2a1=Pawel|2y=2014|2pp=104–107}} The strike covered an area of over {{Convert|400|sqmi|km2}};{{sfn|Bruns|2005|p=46}} Chavez divided the picketers among four quadrants, each with a mobile crew led by a captain.{{sfn|Pawel|2014|p=107}} As the picketers urged those who continued to work to join them on strike, the growers sought to provoke and threaten the strikers. Chavez insisted that the strikers must never respond with violence.{{sfnm|1a1=Bruns|1y=2005|1p=46|2a1=Pawel|2y=2014|2p=107}} The picketers also protested outside strike-breakers' homes,{{sfn|Pawel|2014|p=109}} with the strike dividing many families and breaking friendships.{{sfn|Pawel|2014|p=118}} Police monitored the protests, photographing many of those involved;{{sfn|Bruns|2005|p=47}} they also arrested various strikers.{{sfnm|1a1=Bruns|1y=2005|1p=47|2a1=Pawel|2y=2014|2p=113}} To raise support for those arrested, Chavez called for donations at a speech in Berkeley's [[Sproul Plaza]] in October; he received over $1,000.{{sfn|Pawel|2014|p=113}} Many growers considered Chavez a [[communist]],{{sfn|Pawel|2014|p=112}} and the FBI launched an investigation into both him and the NFWA.{{sfn|Pawel|2014|p=114}}

[[File:Cesar Chavez on march from Mexican border to Sacramento with UFW workers.jpg|thumb|Cesar Chavez (center) on a march from the Mexican border to Sacramento with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California]]
In December, the [[United Automobile Workers]] (UAW) president [[Walter Reuther]] joined Chavez in a pro-strike protest march through Delano.{{sfnm|1a1=Street|1y=1996|1p=356|2a1=Bruns|2y=2005|2p=50|3a1=Pawel|3y=2014|3pp=114–115}} This was the first time that the strike attracted national media attention.{{sfn|Pawel|2014|p=115}} Reuther then pledged that the UAW would donate $5,000 a month to be shared between the AWOC and NFWA.{{sfnm|1a1=Zerzan|1y=1972|1p=125|2a1=Pawel|2y=2014|2p=115}} Chavez also met with representatives of the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] (SNCC), which became an important ally of the strikers.{{sfn|Pawel|2014|p=118}} Influenced by the civil rights movement's successful use of boycott campaigns, Chavez decided to launch his own, targeting companies which owned Delano vineyards or sold grapes grown there. The first target selected, in December 1965, was the [[Schenley Industries|Schenley]] liquor company, which owned one of the area's smaller vineyards.{{sfnm|1a1=Bruns|1y=2005|1p=50|2a1=Pawel|2y=2014|2pp=120–121}} Chavez organized pickets to take place in other cities where Schenley's grapes were being delivered for sale.{{sfnm|1a1=Bruns|1y=2005|1p=50|2a1=Pawel|2y=2014|2pp=121–122}}

By 1965, Chavez was aware that the numbers joining the picket lines had declined; although hundreds of pickers had initially struck, some had returned to their jobs, found employment elsewhere, or moved away from Delano. To keep the pickets going, Chavez invited left-wing activists from elsewhere to join them; many, particularly university students, came from the [[San Francisco Bay Area]].{{sfnm|1a1=Bruns|1y=2005|1p=48|2a1=Pawel|2y=2014|2pp=118–119}} Recruitment was fueled by coverage of the strike in the SNCC's newspaper, ''The Movement'', and the Marxist ''[[People's World]]'' newspaper.{{sfn|Pawel|2014|pp=119–120}} By late fall 1966, a [[protest camp]] had formed in Delano, opening its own medical clinic and children's nursery.{{sfn|Pawel|2014|p=120}} Protesters were entertained by [[Luis Valdez]]'s [[El Teatro Campesino]], which put on skits with a political message.{{sfn|Bruns|2005|p=48}} Within the protest movement there were some tensions between the striking farm-workers and the influx of student radicals.{{sfn|Pawel|2014|p=120}}
[[File:The Movement August 1965 Volume 1 Issue 8.pdf|thumb|National Farm Workers Association (NFWA){{efn|Later to merge with the AWOC to become the United Farm Workers}} [[Tulare labor camps rent strike|rent strike in response to the Tulare County Housing Authority]] raising their rents. (1965)|right|235px|alt=The Movement by The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California|page=1]]