On Easter Day, April 10, 1966, the marchers arrived at Sacramento, where 8,000 supporters welcomed the “dignitaries,” the 57 originales—men and women who had made the entire three-week, a 300-mile-long pilgrimage from Delano. California Governor Pat Brown refused to meet with the marchers and instead spent the weekend in Palm Springs. “We are no longer interested in listening to the excuses the Governor has given in defense of the growers, to his apologies to them for not paying us decent wages, or why the growers cannot dignify the workers as individuals with the right to place the price on their own labor through collective bargaining,” said Dolores Huerta, vice president of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) and the principal speaker at the rally, according to the New York Times. By then, the NFWA had signed a recognition agreement with Schenley Industries and was about to start its election campaign for the Di Giorgio elections. After the march of 1966, during the following months and years, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) kept securing numerous contracts from local growers, despite facing a strong counterattack from growers in collaboration with the Teamsters.