Hernandez, Sergio. “Cover of Con Safos Magazine, Volume 2, Number 5.” Rodolfo F. Acuña Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State University, Northridge.
Cesar Chavez’s Fast for Nonviolence (Delano, CA)
In Delano, California, unionized grape pickers — mostly of Filipino and Latino descent — and other farm workers were among the most food insecure in America. Cesar Chavez, a farmworker and leader of the United Farm Workers, began a 25-day “love fast” on the traditional Feast of St. Valentine in 1968. Every night, an ecumenical array of spiritual leaders led religious services. Senator Robert F. Kennedy attended the final night, a Mass of Thanksgiving that opened with a Jewish prayer. Priests broke bread and the fast ended with communion served from an altar on a flatbed truck.
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We Can Solve Hunger —
The Proof is in Our History
The Proof is in Our History
- 1.Welcome
- 2.Museum Lobby
- 3.Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe
- 4.Immigration from Europe – for tours
- 5.Immigration from Europe
- 6.Jane Addams and Hull House
- 7.The Dark Side of Nutrition Science
- 8.On the Breadline
- 9.Beginnings
- 10.How did the Food Stamp Program work?
- 11.Farm Family Portraits Pic 2 for Tours
- 12.An Unequal Recovery
- 13.1945-1965: WWII and the Paradoxes of the Postwar Era
- 14.Norman Rockwell, “Freedom From Want”
- 15.How did the National School Lunch Program work?
- 16.What were the structural limitations of the National School Lunch Program’s reach?
- 17.What were the structural limitations of the National School Lunch Program’s reach? Pic 2 for tours
- 18.“New Frigidaire Refrigerators!” by General Motors
- 19.Hunger, Justice, and Civil Rights - Landing
- 20.Hunger, Justice, and Civil Rights - Main
- 21.Lunch Counter Student Sit-Ins (Greensboro, NC)
- 22.Fannie Lou Hamer and Freedom Farmers (Sunflower County, MS)
- 23.The Fish Wars (Nisqually, WA)
- 24.Cesar Chavez’s Fast for Nonviolence (Delano, CA)
- 25.Fannie Lou Hamer on CBS News Series “Of Black America”
- 26.President Lyndon B. Johnson
- 27.Senator George McGovern and Senator Robert Dole
- 28.Lyndon B. Johnson
- 29.Dr. Jean Mayer and the White House Conference
- 30.1975-1996: The Unmaking of the Great Society
- 31.Government Cheese
- 32.The Welfare Queen
- 33.Welfare Reform
- 34.COVID-19 – 2nd photo for tours
- 35.Wishing Tree
- 36.End tour
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger