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Nagi Daifal­lah was a young farm work­er from Yemen who moved to Cal­i­for­nia in the ear­ly 1970s when he was just 20 years old. He went on to become one of the orga­niz­ers of the infa­mous 1973 grape strike in Cal­i­for­nia, led by Cesar Chavez. But one night in 1973, after a day of strik­ing he was beat­en to death by a local coun­ty sher­iff out­side a restau­rant in Lam­ont, Cal­i­for­nia. Although the sher­iff who killed him nev­er faced jus­tice, Nagis sto­ry ” and the move­ment he helped orga­nize ” went on to make real change to farm work­ers rights in Amer­i­ca, and con­tin­ues to inspire Yemeni Amer­i­can activists today.

This sto­ry orig­i­nal­ly aired on Kern­ing Cul­tures, a pod­cast telling sto­ries from across the Mid­dle East and North Africa and the spaces in between.