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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Philip Vera Cruz (category People from Delano, California)
    National Farm Labor Union, in the 1950s. His union local, based in Delano, California, had an Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC). The prime...
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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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  • Delano Area Rapid Transit (DART) is the operator of mass transportation in Delano, California. Four routes operate within the city, which serves most...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Hanford Norte X4 [Hanford] °Earlimart Norte X4 [Earlimart] ° Varrio Delano Lokos X4 [Delano] Peckerwood Nazi Lowriders Public Enemy No. 1 Rancho San Pedro...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Robert F. Kennedy (category People murdered 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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  • 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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  • KCHJ (AM) (category Spanish-language radio stations in California)
    ranchera and Norteño oldies format to the Bakersfield, California, area. Licensed to Delano, California, the station is owned by Lotus Communications. Its...
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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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