ABOUT THIS BUTTON: This United Farm Worker's pin was issued in the mid 1960's to raise funds for and awareness about the efforts to organize farm workers in the grape fields of Delano, California.The pin has an image of a bunch of grapes and reads GRAPES OF WRATH DELANO. This refers to the John Steinbeck book, Grapes of Wrath, about the plight of migrant workers in the Depression.Delano Grape Strike(Excerpts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (public domain).)The Delano grape strike was a labor strike by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers against grape growers in California. The strike began on September 8, 1965 , and lasted more than five years . Due largely to a consumer boycott of non-union grapes , the strike ended

Button: GRAPES OF WRATH DELANO
Description: Farmworkers button
Origin: Original Sixties
Size: 1 1/2”
Condition: See photos - very good, aging on inside (actual button pictured)