

Cesar Chávez, alongside Dolores Huerta and other Chicano activists within this organization, defended the rights of farmworkers by employing nonviolent organizing tactics rooted in Catholic social teaching, Chicano identity, and civil rights rhetoric. In 1962, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), a predecessor of the United Farm Workers (UFW), was founded in Delano, California. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. 2002: Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act & 2012: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).1991: American Baptist Churches (ABC) v.1990: Temporary Protection Status (TPS).1986: Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.1974: Southwest Voter Registration Education Project.1968: The Young Lord's Organization/Party.1967: Tierra Amarilla Land Grant & Courthouse Raid.1938: Spanish Speaking People's Congress.1911: Meeting of the Mexicanist Congress.
