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A crowd of farm workers celebrating Easter mass at sunrise, Forty Acres, Delano, CA, 1968. Photo by John Kouns.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Forty Acres, a 40-acre parcel purchased by the National Farm Worker Service Center (NFWCS) in 1967 on Garces Highway, served as the new UFW headquarters, near its former site at Arroyo Camp. By April 1968, when Emmon Clarke took these Easter mass photos, not all buildings were completed. The health clinic’s mobile facilities had moved to Forty Acres, and Richard Ch\u00e1vez had already constructed the farmworker coop gas station, using adobe bricks and a mission tile roof, a building that hosted Cesar Chavez’s 25-day Fast for Nonviolence in February and March of 1968. 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Most of the building construction was completed by volunteers, with LeRoy Chatfield, assigned by Chavez in 1965 to fund and establish farmworker cooperatives, raising the initial funds. \u201cThis farmworker movement assignment during my first hour in strike-torn Delano continues to amaze me,\u201d wrote Chatfield in an essay titled Forty Acres Delano: United Farm Workers. \u201cCh\u00e1vez was committed to building something more than a union mostly concerned with wages and working conditions, he planned to empower communities of poor people \u2013 in this case, farmworkers \u2013 by involving them in economic self-help programs and teaching them how to work cooperatively together for the benefit of the entire community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”1.6em” custom_padding=”|||358px||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” link_option_url=”https:\/\/digital-library.csun.edu\/fmc” link_option_url_new_window=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n A crowd of farm workers celebrating Easter mass at sunrise, Forty Acres, Delano, CA, 1968. 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