Image from UC San Diego, Library gets digital archive of farm worker movement.

General Resources

Katie Anastas: Mapping UFW Strikes, Boycotts, and Farm Worker Actions 1965-1975.

Farmworker Movement Documentation Project: Primary source accounts by the UFW volunteers who built the movement.

The Bob Fitch Photography Archive: Cesar Chavez/UFW, 1968-1974.

United Farm Workers official webpage. (See especially the History & Chronology sections.)

Books

Lauren Araiza: To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers.

Frank Bardacke: Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers.

Cesar Chavez: An Organizer’s Tale: Speeches.

Lori A. Flores: Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement.

Marshall Ganz: Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement.

Mario T. Garcia:

• A Dolores Huerta Reader.
• The Gospel of César Chávez: My Faith in Action.

Matthew Garcia: From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement.

Miriam Pawel:

• Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement.  
• The Crusades of Cesar Chavez.

Randy Shaw: Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century.

Craig Scharlin & Lilia Villanueva: Philip Vera Cruz: A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement.

Luis Valdez: Theatre of the Sphere: The Vibrant Being.

Alan J. Watt: Farm Workers and the Churches: The Movement in California and Texas.

Articles

Lauren Araiza:

• The historical alliance behind today’s Strike for Black Lives: A partnership between the Black Panther Party and the United Farm Workers paid off.
• “In Common Struggle against a Common Oppression”: The United Farm Workers and the Black Panther Party, 1968-1973.

David Bacon:

• An Immigrant Woman Takes Charge of the United Farm Workers: Change—and perhaps a new day in the fields—comes to Cesar Chavez’s legendary union.
• Taking a More Realistic Look at the Farmworkers Union.
• See more by David Bacon here and here.

Frank Bardacke: The United Farm Workers Was More Than Cesar Chavez.

Jerry Brown: The United Farm Workers Grape Strike and Boycott, 1965-1970: An Evaluation of the Culture of Poverty Theory.

Eric Brazil: review of ‘Trampling Out the Vintage,’ by Frank Bardacke.

Lori A. Flores:

• How the United Farm Workers can regain their influence: The union has a unique opportunity to build a broad movement with popular support.
• See also this collection of Flores’ writings.

Marshall Ganz:

• Not the Cesar Chavez I Knew: A new film about the labor leader reduces him to a caricature and ignores his true strengths as an organizer.
• See also this collection of Ganz’s writings.

Matt Garcia:

• Cesar Chavez, flawed hero of the fields.
• Successes and Failures of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union.
• I Need A Hero: Latina/o biography for a twenty-­‐first century audience.
• See also these critiques of Garcia’s work, and his response.

Emil Guillermo: Eclipsed by Cesar Chavez, Larry Itliong’s Story Now Emerges: Fifty-years later, the Filipino community acts to clarify the history of the Delano Grape Strike and its leader, Larry Itliong.

Miriam Pawel:

• 50 years ago, Cesar Chavez led a crusade to unite and empower farmworkers.
• Cesar Chavez Did Not Want This Work to Be Cruel: The next generation, the one he foresaw, must find ways to bring reform, in the fields and in the cities.
• Not just to praise Cesar.

Gayle Romasanta: Why It Is Important to Know the Story of Filipino-American Larry Itliong.

Somini Sengupta: ‘A Duty to Fight’: Labor: Nearly 30 years ago, Philip Vera Cruz helped start what became the UFW. His struggle represents a forgotten chapter in the history of Filipino farm workers.

Jocelyn Sherman: Dr. King’s telegram to Cesar Chavez during his 1968 fast for nonviolence.

Wikipedia:

• Cesar Chavez.
• Philip Vera Cruz.
• Delano grape strike.
• El Teatro Campesino.
• Dolores Huerta.
• Larry Itliong.
• Eliseo Medina.

Videos & Podcasts

Lauren Araiza (author of To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers) in discussion with Bill Jennings, former Black Panther who supported the farm workers. 

Asian Law Caucus: AAPI Civil Rights Heroes – Philip Vera Cruz.

Lynn Burnett:

• King’s First Letter to Chavez.
• King’s Second Letter to Chavez.
• The Minority Group Conference.
• Chavez and SNCC.
• Efforts to Divide Black and Latino Communities.

César Chávez discussion panel.

Jessica Govea: From Girlhood to Inspiring a Movement.

Larry Itliong’s Vital Contributions to the Farm Labor Movement.

Latino Studies Podcast: Lori Flores, “Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants and the California Farmworker Movement”.

Randy Shaw: Beyond the Fields.

Image: Xavier Viramontes, Boycott Grapes, Support the United Farm Workers Union, 1973, offset lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, 1995.50.58, © 1973, Xavier Viramontes.