he became involved with the organization the cso community service organization. where he cut his teeth as a community organizers. it proved resistant to actually wanting to organize farm workers. so he left the cso in the early 1960s and formed a new organization called the national farm workers association. delores huerta she has her office in downtown bakersfield. probably the most prominent latino american living today. still doing great work. was a cofounder of the organization. it wasn't a union yet. they weren't quite ready when they were founded to actually start a union. in 1965, i know some of you know this history, the philippines are going on strike. on september 8, 1965. and chavez and the nfwa join the fill philippine on the strike. to walk out on the fields in protest of higher wages. the strike will last five long years. along the way i told you the beginning of the lecture that the strategy shifts, right, from the strike to the boycott of grapes. but it takes five long years of farm workers organizing themselves, boycotting grapes, protesting, try

for example, the cso chapter, they were very instrumental, much more than just caesar. not to say he wasn't important, but many people that were part of that organization became part of future organizations. so, that was, once again, the real foundation of how we made silicon valley what it become. damian: real trailblazers. again, that's the la raza historical society here in silicon valley. you can find them on--i find you guys on facebook. any other information that you want to give out if people are looking for you, or just you can just google it because that's a good way to find it. we'll be back to talk more about the raza historical society when we continue. stay with us. it takes a little support. and pg&e is ready to do our part. our care program can save you 20% or more on your monthly bill. when having a little extra can mean a lot, turn to care. go to pge.com/care and enroll today. "comunidad del valle." you have an event coming up. tell us about that. nannette: we do, we're very excited. this is one--as i mentioned, one of our first events. it's going to be

and he was active in the cso and he was a community organizer in southeast bakersfield. he did a variety of things from getting ordinary people to vote, getting them to attend city council meetings to be aware how local policies would affect them. again when they got some federal dollars to fight poverty, again they were able to go in there and do very concrete programs to try to improve the living conditions of the people of southeast bakersfield. and they were also some of the biggest supporters of the union, the farm workers movement. to dial this back to what we were talking about at the beginning of this segment of the lectures. we have talked about the farm worker movement but also not. as i was trying to unpack what that story is before we talk about the plan of deleino. as i said caesar chavez his family migrated to california and joined the circuit because of the depression. a lot of you know what the migrant circuit is it's when you follow the crops essentially. i mentioned he became involved with the organization, the cso, the community service organization wh

opportunity for her to do that because she died of bright's disease and her husband quickly, or want not cso quickly, and he marry edith and there she is. you might think she would have been an activist. she was a strong role and a close confidant of her husband, and he shared everything with her, war secrets and thing he shouldn't have, and she was not an activist and she didn't care about women's causes and mostly she cared about her husband and wanted to help him, and that wasn't so bad. one of the things she did do as a war measure. did you know this? i don't want to say she planted sheep, but she planted things for sheep on the white house lawn. they mowed the lawn, munch, much, mumuch munch, munch, and they produced wool. at that time people were used to going on the white house grounds and they couldn't go if the sheep were there and this was important as world war i develops and she was helpful in telling soldiers how to live, but ironically, this is at a time when women were being arrested in the streets of washington, right, for people like margaret sanger for providing birth contr