Could Cesar Chavez Deliver Immigration Reform?
A Student of Chavez Is Leading a Fast on the National Mall; History Suggests the Tactic May Work
Forty-six years ago, Cesar Chavez huddled in Delano, California with a group of farmworkers he had launched on an improbable mission: to stop the sale of grapes until California growers agreed to sign union contracts. Four months into the grape boycott, the farmworkers were floundering. Chavez was neither discouraged nor daunted as he lectured his staff on how to succeed:
“Concentrate all your time, every bit of your time, blindly,” he told the United Farm Workers organizers. If they were single-minded, he told them, they could achieve anything. They must try …
