The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, whose fight to better the lives of the ...

Thousands rallied in Delano, California, in honor of César Chávez Day, marching to the forty-acre site where Chávez held his ...

The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, whose fight to better the lives of the ...

Dozens of community activists marched down the streets of South El Paso and Downtown El Paso to honor civil rights idol César ...

The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, whose fight to better ... that left him too weak to even read a speech he had prepared. The speech, read ...

Thousands of union members and their supporters marched through Delano, the historic home of the United Farm Workers union, in celebration of César Chávez Day on what would have been the late labor ...

Cesar Chavez Day celebrates the life and legacy of ... and a 25-day fast in 1968 that left him too weak to even read a speech he had prepared. The speech, read on his behalf, said in part ...

"We find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years ago. And we should honor him for what he's taught us about making America a stronger, more just and more prosperous nation.

Chicano and civil-rights icon César E. Chávez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona, to migrant laborers. He worked in the fields before joining the Navy for two years and returning to ...