In this small town in the San Joaquin Valley -- California's fruit basket -- Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta joined forces in 1962 to found , later known as the United Farm Workers (UFW). Delano is still the organization's headquarters. As Mexican-Americans born to parents who did manual labor, Chavez and Huerta were no strangers to hard work. Throughout their native Southwest there was strong discrimination against Mexican-Americans. Migrant workers from Mexico, an abundant source of cheap labor, were key to grape growers' profits. These w ....