When Cesar Chavez decided to turn to the urban areas and encourage people across the country to boycott the purchase of lettuce in 1970, Sarah moved to Seattle to help organize the Washington campaign. In Salinas, she became involved in the United Farm Worker’s Organizing Committee (UFWOC) by helping to publicize and support farm worker grape strikes. She lived in Coachella for one year and then moved to Salinas, California, where she met Cesar Chavez.
There, she witnessed the exploitative conditions suffered by Mexican migrant workers and became involved in local grape strikes. By the age of 23, Welch was already a successful leader of the UFW movement in Seattle.Īfter graduating from UC Davis in 1969, she moved to Coachella Valley in southern California, taking a job as a teacher for the Coachella Valley School District. Sarah Welch spent years in the boycott campaigns in support of the United Farm Worker’s movement in California and Washington. YouTube Playlist (Click Icon Below to Expand)
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