July 29, 1970
After a five-year strike, the United Farm Workers (UFW) signed a contract with the table grape growers in California that granted better pay and working conditions, ending the first grape boycott. The boycott connected middle-class families in big cities with poor farm worker families in the California vineyards. Millions stopped eating grapes. At dinner tables across the country, parents gave children a simple, powerful lesson in social justice.
