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Lesson Plan, Video, Activity Filipino American Farmworkers Fight for Their Rights

  • Grade Level K-8th Grade
  • Time Period 1950 - 1989
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Introduction

Led by Larry Itliong, Filipino workers partnered with Cesar Chavez and Mexican-American workers to overcome unfair treatment. Together they formed the United Farm Workers Movement that ultimately improved working conditions for all farm workers.
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to:

  • Describe how Asian Americans worked with different groups of people to build a coalition and the outcomes of such coalitions
  • Explain how Asian Americans used activism to overcome unfair treatment during this time period (1960s)
  • Identify ways in which Asian Americans were being treated unjustly during this time period (1960s).
  • Identify the goals of social activism and explain the difference between being a bystander, an ally, and an accomplice.

Essential Questions

  • How were Filipino farmworkers treated unfairly?

  • How did Filipino farmworkers try to change this unfair treatment?

  • Why might it have been a difficult decision to go on strike?

  • Why was it important for the United Farm Workers Union to be united?