It started with a walkout in the grape fields of Delano, but grew into a movement that would later change the course for farmworker rights. Sixty years later, the fight and the legacy live on. As the community prepares to celebrate the historic fight, 23ABC sat down with one man who lived through the event.

"Filipinos weren't normally the type of people to go into anything like this so when I heard that we were participating in such an event at a young age, my head wasn't ready to wrap that around yet,” said Dominador Tomate, member of the Filipino American National Historical Society.

In 1965, when the Grape Strike broke out in the fields of Delano, Dominador Tomate was only 12 years old.

Coming from a farm-working family, Tomate says it was very surreal seeing hundreds of people stop

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