Frank Ochoa: History Collides on San Andrés Street
On Aug. 15, 1973, Nagi Daifullah, a strike captain for the United Farmworkers Union, was killed while on a picket line in Lamont, California, southeast of Bakersfield. The 24-year-old Yemeni migrant farmworker was picketing at the Smokehouse Café when Kern County sheriff’s deputies arrived to disperse the crowd. In the confrontation, Daifullah was clubbed by…
