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Lot 91 of : Cesar Chavez 1966 Inscribed photograph with Robert Kennedy at the Delano Grape Strike
1media/Cesar Chavez and Kennedy_thumb.jpeg2022-08-30T23:48:30+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4912Candid Photograph of Cesar Chavez and Robert Kennedy at the Delano Grape Strike. ca. March 16, 1966. 8 x 9.5", pasted to stiff cardboard. Inscribed by Chavez in faded ink in lower margin: "Para Andy y Margarita, Buena Suerte, Cesar E. Chavez" Handwritten note on verso: Delano Grape Strike C. 1966 / Cesar Chavez, Robert Kennedy. As a US Senator, Kennedy visited Chavez (now sometimes called the Latino Martin Luther King Jr.) in the second year of the five-year Delano agricultural workers strike against grape growers in California's central valley. He met with Chavez again in 1968, when he was a presidential candidate, three months before his untimely death.plain2022-08-30T23:49:10+00:001966Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49