What steps they took were getting together, and protesting little things with one-another about the unfairness of how they are being treated. Alawys the first thing ANYBODY did to get equal rights was first getting together with people who felt the same way. :-)
The Bonus Army, made up of WWl vets and their families, came marching into Washington to demand that their pensions from the war to be payed early.
The symptoms of farmworker exploitation and the more flamboyant aspects of farmworkers’ efforts to gain fair contracts from the growers have become quite well-known. Much less known by equally important is a story which deals with the nitty-gritty of the farmworkers’ struggle for economic dignity: their efforts to form a nation-wide farm workers union.
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The core of the tradition holds that in 458 Cincinnatus was appointed dictator of Rome in order to rescue a consular army that was surrounded by the Aequi on Mount Algidus. At the time of his appointment he was working a small farm. He is said to have defeated the enemy in a single day and celebrated a triumph in Rome.
