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The Farm Workers’ Movement from California to Connecticut

By Arianna Basche © Connecticut Explored

Bishop Joseph F. Donnelly and Cesar Chavez at a press conference, April 2, 1970. photo: Larry Shakey, Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library

Labor activist Cesar Chavez first visited Connecticut in 1969 on the northeastern leg of his national…