Berlin and the African American story and take your questions or historians joining us throughout the day. World war ii 70 years later live from the National World war ii museum, saturday, november 7, beginning at 11 00 a. M. Eastern here on American History tv on cspan3. Next, lorraine agtang, who participated in the 1965 delano grape strike, joins a panel of historians to discuss its history and legacy as well as the early days of the Farmworkers Movement. California State University bakersfield and Bakersfield College cohosted this event. Its about 90 minutes. Mr. Asher the next portion of our program is a Panel Discussion on the history and legacy of the grape strike. It is an honor to have with us one of the heroes of the strike, ms. Lorraine agtang. They started the strike in 1965. Lorraine and her family lived for years in the same farm labor camp outside delano. She was 13 when the strike began. When it was won in 1970, she and her family proudly went to work under union contra
Who participated in the 1965 delano grape strike, joins a panel of historians to discuss its history and legacy as well as the early days of the Farmworkers Movement. California State University bakersfield and Bakersfield College cohosted this event. Its about 90 minutes. The next portion of our program is a Panel Discussion on the history and legacy of the grapestrike the str it is ani honor to have with us one of the heroes of theke. The grape strike. It is an honor to have with us one of the heroes of the strike, ms. Lorraine agtang. She and her family lived for years in the same farm labor camp outside delano. She was 13 when it began. In 1970, she and her family proudly went to work under union contract. Out on strike again in 1973. She was the first manager of the retirement village you saw in delano that the Farmworkers Movement built for elderly and displaced filipino in 1974. Rs in 1975, with the passage of the Agricultural Labor relations act, lorraine organized farmworkers
Strike. She lived for years in the same farm labor camp outside of delano. She was 13 when the strike began in 1970, sheas won and her family went to work under union contract. They walked out on strike again. N 1973 she was the first manager of the retirement village that you saw that thelm near delano Farmworkers Movement built for elderly and misplaced filipino farmworkers in 1974. In 1970 five, with the passage of the Agricultural Labor relations act, they organized farmworkers from multiple ethnicities for the first elections. She has been a dedicated activist with the Farmworkers Movement ever since, and continues to tell the story of the contribution to the movement. Is ms. Mabalon a professor of history at San Francisco State University with an ma in American University studies and a phd from stanford. Her research focuses on Filipino American history historical and cultural preservation and filipinoamerican food ways. Choose the author of a filipina in stockton,nity california