In 1962, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association which became the United Farm Workers (UFW). This section of the exhibit focuses on several activist efforts to improve working conditions and attain a living wage. This obvious discrepancy coupled with substandard living and working conditions has angered farmworkers and activists through the decades. “National Agricultural Workers Survey” March 2000).
farmworkers earn less than $10,000 per year, and three out of five farmworker families have incomes below the poverty level (United States Department of Labor. Department of Agriculture, 1993), and yet nearly three-quarters of U.S. “Hired Farm Labor Use on Fruit, Vegetable, and Horticultural Specialty Farms.” Washington, DC: U.S. Migrant farm labor supports the $28 billion dollar fruit and vegetable industry in the United States (Oliveira, V. Gelatin silver print Long Live the Strike: Activism for Farmworkers' Rights
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