THE LABOR MOVEMENT Vote Register MalaquĂas Montoya, Peace Press Offset, circa 1972 Los Angeles, CA
The creation of the United Farm Workers Party and La Raza Unida gave the Labor Movement a great deal of power and linked it to a greater struggle for Civil Rights. In the 1960s and early 1970s there was a sense of solidarity between workers of different races and farm and urban workers. This unified front gave the labor movement a great deal of power and the UFW became one of the central inspirations of the Chicano movement.