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Founded in 1955, Natural Grocers started by selling whole-grain bread door-to-door and offering nutritional information. Growing popularity spurs Natural Grocers as a rapidly expanding grocery retailer. Founded in 1955 by Margaret and Philip Isely, stores continue operation as a family business with the children of the couple acting as owners and proprietors.
The Filipino workers in particular had experience organizing unions in the fields and with strikes. Two of its early leaders were Larry Itliong, a Filipino, and Dolores Huerta, a Chicana. The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) was started by a young Chicano named Cesar Chavez in 1962.Chavez, the son of a family of extremely poor farmworkers, had risen through the ranks of the grassroots Community Service Organization (CSO) to become its national director.ne had been formed in 1959 by the AFL-CIO, called the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. It was an outgrowth of an earlier farmworker organization, the Agricultural Workers Association (AWA), founded by Dolores Huerta. AWOC was mostly composed of Filipinos, Chicanos, Anglos and Black workers.