Both disenchanted by CSO’s decision against organizing for farmworkers, Huerta and Chavez left in 1962 and founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in Delano, California.
By 1965, membership had grown to 1,200 families.
Founding the NFWA
Huerta signing up NFWA members.
(Joseph F. Gunterman, 1962)
Huerta (second from left) at NFWA founding convention. (Joseph F. Gunterman, 1962)