PHOTO BY JOHN KOUNS
Some of the Delano strikers were not Catholics but Evangelicals and they too were invited to particpate in the evening religious service during the course of the Fast. These Evangelical ministers read from scripture and provided commentary at the conclusion of the Catholic Mass. By design, and of necessity, Cesar Chavez directed his farmworker movement to include all religions and races – no exceptions! He believed in ecumenism and practiced it.