He was born on March 31, 1927, near Yuma, Arizona, according to the Cesar Chavez Foundation. Chávez is best known as a civil rights and labor activist, especially for farm workers. He fought for ...

The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez ... his family lost their farm during the Great Depression, leading Chavez into what would become his longtime ...

Images of farm workers are shown at the base of a statue ... Books by Miriam Pawel — “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez” and “The Union of Their Dreams” — provide some insight into the ...

In this undated photo, Cesar Chavez marches with farm workers in San Juan, Texas.(File Photo / The Dallas Morning News) Cesar Chavez Day takes place annually on March 31. Proclaimed nationally as ...

Like Mrs. Huerta, he was not overwhelmed by his first encounter with Chavez. “Cesar was very quiet,” he told me. “He just mentioned that he had quit his job to start organizing farm workers ...

Could a national park to recognize Latino icon and civil rights leader César E. Chávez and the Farmworker Movement be established soon? That is what the César E. Chávez and the Farmworker ...

And his cause lives on as farm workers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages," Obama said at the time. "We find strength in what Cesar Chavez ...

The United Farm Workers Union sought Texas support for its fight with California grape growers to negotiate better wages, safer worker conditions, and improved benefits. Saldivar knew firsthand ...

California farmworkers are filing a lawsuit to strike down a state law that they say would force them to be unionized under ...

now the United Farm Workers of America. Chávez also led a national boycott of grapes and other products in 1965 to fight for farmers' right to unionize, according to the Cesar Chavez Foundation. " ...