Delano (/dəˈleɪnoʊ/ də-LAY-noh) is a city in Kern County, California, United States. Delano is located 31 miles (50 km) north-northwest of Bakersfield...
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AFL-CIO-sponsored labor organization, against table grape growers in Delano, California to fight against the exploitation of farm workers. The strike began...
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In the United States, members of the Delano family include U.S. presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge, astronaut...
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Look up Delano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Delano or DeLano may refer to: Delano, California Delano, Wichita, Kansas, a neighborhood in Wichita...
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Cesar Chavez (category Catholics from California)
Angeles. In 1962, he left the CSO to co-found the NFWA, based in Delano, California, through which he launched an insurance scheme, a credit union, and...
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Noriega (born September 29, 1989), better known under the stage name Adore Delano, is an American drag queen, singer-songwriter, and television personality...
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North Kern State Prison (category 1993 establishments in California)
State Prison (NKSP) is a medium-security prison located in Delano, Kern County, California. Opened in April 1993, this state prison has a design capacity...
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United Farm Workers (category Labor relations in California)
Filipino American and Mexican American farmworkers of the AWOC in Delano, California, initiated a grape strike, and the NFWA went on strike in support...
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Joaquin Arambula (category People from Delano, California)
(born May 17, 1977) is an American politician currently serving in the California State Assembly. He is a Democrat representing the 31st Assembly District...
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Columbus Delano (June 4, 1809 – October 23, 1896) was an American lawyer, rancher, banker, statesman, and a member of the prominent Delano family. Forced...
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Luis Valdez (category People from Delano, California)
of theatre and arts of the Chicano community. Valdez was born in Delano, California, to migrant farm worker parents from Mexico, Armeda and Francisco...
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populous city in the United States and the 9th-most populous in California. The Bakersfield–Delano Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Kern...
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The Delano Unified Elementary School District is in Delano, California. Of the 11 schools, eight of the schools are K-5. They are Princeton, Morningside...
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Kern Valley State Prison (category 2005 establishments in California)
Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP) is a male-only state prison in Delano, California. Kern Valley is a Level IV Maximum Security institution, opened in June...
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The Delano Police Department is the agency responsible for law enforcement within the City of Delano, California. The department is divided into three...
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Larry Itliong (category People from Delano, California)
children, and raised his family in the Delano area and in the Little Manila community of Stockton, California. As a farmworker, Itliong worked in Alaska;...
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Murder of Shirley Soosay (category 1980 in California)
is a formerly unidentified decedent found in an almond orchard in Delano, California on 14 July 1980. A member of the Samson Cree Nation, Soosay grew up...
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Richard Chavez (category People from Delano, California)
United Farm Workers' union hall, which became its headquarters, in Delano, California. Paul Chavez, the president of the Cesar Chavez Foundation and son...
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Dack Rambo (category People from Delano, California)
the soap opera Another World. Norman Jay Rambo was born in Earlimart, California, to William Lester and Beatrice A. (née Rossi) Rambo. He was a middle...
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Julie Chávez Rodriguez (category California Democrats)
president, and, in 2023, as his campaign manager. Rodriguez was born in Delano, California. She was raised in Tehachapi in a family of well-known labor activists...
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and the superheroine Pantha in Teen Titans. "Diane Delano". Hollywood.com. Emeryville, California: Baseline. Retrieved July 10, 2016. "Celebrity birthdays...
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Delano Municipal Airport (ICAO: KDLO, FAA LID: DLO) is six miles southwest of Delano, in Kern County, California, United States. Most U.S. airports use...
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El Teatro Campesino (category San Juan Bautista, California)
Originally based in Delano, California, during the Delano Strike, the theatre is currently based in San Juan Bautista, California. Currently, El Teatro...
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Robert F. Kennedy (category Deaths by firearm in California)
previously marched with and provided money to Chavez, Kennedy flew out to Delano, California, to investigate the situation. Although little attention was paid...
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May 17th, 1993, Poe and his wife were killed in a car accident near Delano, California in Kern County. Three years later, "Poe's heirs sold their interest...
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Martin Sheen (category California Democrats)
Delano, California. Sheen endorsed marches and walkouts called by the activist group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) to force the State of California to...
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twelve. Located at the southern part of the Central San Joaquin Valley, Delano is an agricultural community which straddles the southern end of Tulare...
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Leamon King (category People from Delano, California)
schoolteacher, living in Delano, California. He had been a successful student athlete, breaking and making records, at Delano High School, making the finals...
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from the farmworker strikes and marches in Delano, California and New York City, the activism of the Delano grape strike that spread throughout the country...
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SWAT (category 1968 establishments in California)
conducted[when?] north of Los Angeles in the farming community of Delano, California on the border between Kern and Tulare Counties in the San Joaquin...
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