Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927. He would grow to lead strikes and become one of the greatest US farm worker ...

Books by Miriam Pawel — “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez” and “The Union of Their Dreams” — provide some insight into the man whose name graces streets, schools, parks and a U.S. Naval ...

The nation is set to celebrate the federal holiday of César E. Chávez Day in honor of the Chicano labor leader. That means some city offices and schools will be closed in observance of the day on ...

After service in the Navy, Cesar, with Dolores Huerta and other ... of fighting for the rights of workers, the efforts of Cesar Chavez on behalf of the low-paid workers who toil in the fields ...

The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, whose fight to better the ... Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. After leaving the Navy in 1946, Chavez ...

Learning the history of Chavez and labor-activist colleague Dolores Huerta, their lives and times — and the lives of other ...

"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.

Books by Miriam Pawel — “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez” and “The Union of Their Dreams” — provide some insight into the man ...

The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez ... After leaving the Navy in 1946, Chavez eventually adopted La Causa — the cause — to unionize the ...