| Birth: | Mar. 31, 1927
Yuma
Yuma County
Arizona, USA | | Death: | Apr. 23, 1993
San Luis (Yuma County)
Yuma County
Arizona, USA | 
Founder, United Farm Workers Union/Civil Rights Leader. Cesario Estrada Chavez is born on the small farm near Yuma, Ariz. that his grandfather homesteaded in the 1880s. 1952-1962, together with Fred Ross, Cesar organizers 22 CSO chapters across California in the 1950s. Under Cesar's leadership, CSO becomes the most militant and effective Latino civil rights group of its day. It helps Latinos become citizens, registers them to vote, battles police brutality and presses for paved streets and other barrio improvementsFebruary. In March of 1968, Cesar fasts for 25 days to rededicate his movement to nonviolence. U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy joins 8,000 farm workers and supporters at a mass where Cesar breaks his fast, calling the weakened farm labor leader "one of the heroic figures of our time. On December 10-24, 1970, Cesar was jailed Salinas, California for refusing to obey a court order to stop the boycott against Bud Antle lettuce. Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert Kennedy, visit Cesar in jail. On April 23, 1993, he died peacefully in his sleep at the modest home of a retired San Luis, Ariz. farm worker while defending the UFW against a multi-million dollar lawsuit brought against the union by a large vegetable grower. On April 29, 1993, 40,000 mourners march behind Cesar's plain pine casket during funeral services in Delano. On August 8, 1994, President Bill Clinton posthumously presents the Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, to Cesar Chavez. His widow, Helen, receives the medal during a White House ceremony. (bio by: Da Prophet)
Search Amazon for Cesar Chavez | | | Burial:
UFW Headquarters
Keene
Kern County
California, USA |
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Record added: Apr 20, 2002
Find A Grave Memorial# 6359132 |
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