United Farm Workers Turns 50, Launches Interactive Site

Beyond Long Beach — By VoiceWaves on March 18, 2012 3:42 pm

By LatinoLA Contributor
Published on LatinoLA: March 14, 2012

You have the unique chance to help capture history–yours!

Preparing to observe its 50th anniversary, the United Farm Workers is launching a unique interactive web site, www.ufwstories.com. It will document the accounts of thousands of men, women and children who participated over five historic decades with Cesar Chavez and the UFW. It will tell the story of how millions of Americans, 17 million adults in a 1975 nationwide poll, rallied to the farm workers’ cause and continue to support it.

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