Delano
California farming town
Delano is a city in California's Central Valley, known for agricultural production and as the site of the 1965 grape strike led by César Chávez and the United Farm Workers.
It also appears as a middle name, most famously Franklin Delano Roosevelt's: FDR's middle name honored his mother's family, the Delanos.
- FDRDepression-era presidential initials
- middle nameGiven but not primary
- New DealDepression-era reform agenda
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
fireside chats · Eleanor Roosevelt · Social Security Act · Civilian Conservation Corps · Tennessee Valley Authority · 1930s · polio · Hyde Park
- farmworkersAgricultural manual laborers
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
- vineyardsLand cultivated for wine grapes
- Central ValleyCalifornia's main farming region
San Joaquin Valley · agriculture · grapes · harvest · fieldwork · table grapes · boycott · Filipino workers
Study of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- family nameHereditary portion of identity
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- lineageDescent from progenitors
patronymic · descendants · relatives · legacy · family tree · bloodline · forebears · kinship
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- FDRDepression-era presidential initials
- middle nameGiven but not primary
- New DealDepression-era reform agenda
Great Depression · fireside chats · Eleanor Roosevelt · Social Security Act · Civilian Conservation Corps · Tennessee Valley Authority · 1930s · polio · Hyde Park · World War II
Cesar Chavez
- farmworkersAgricultural manual laborers
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
- vineyardsLand cultivated for wine grapes
Central Valley · San Joaquin Valley · agriculture · grapes · harvest · fieldwork · table grapes · boycott · Filipino workers · packinghouses
genealogy
Study of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- family nameHereditary portion of identity
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
lineage · patronymic · descendants · relatives · legacy · family tree · bloodline · forebears · kinship · pedigree