Sitr had known Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. She’d known Nagi Daifullah, a Yemeni American farmworker and a martyr to the farmworkers’ cause. When Cesar Chavez began to organize farmworkers, the Yemenis in the Central Valley lined up behind him. In 1973, Daifullah, a Yemeni from Ibb, became a United Farm Workers’ strike captain. Fluent in English and Spanish, he was a crucial link between the Spanish- and Arabic-speaking laborers. In August that year, at the height of the UFW battles with the farm owners and law enforcement, Daifullah was outside a bar, celebrating a modest union victory. A
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