(KGET) — Each March 31 — the day civil rights icon Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma ... a 300-mile march from Delano to Sacramento, fasting, as well as a grape boycott — which farmworkers ...

The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, whose fight to better the lives ... his famous 340-mile march from Delano to Sacramento, and a 25-day fast in 1968 ...

In 1962, Chavez, along with activist Dolores Huerta ... to Sacramento and a 25-day fast in 1968, according to the UFW website. In 1993, Chávez died in Arizona at the age of 66.

On a sweltering August morning in 1988, Cesar Chavez ended a 36-day water-only fast to protest high rates of cancer and birth defects among California grape workers and their children, which he ...

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 ...