The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez ... and a 25-day fast in 1968 that left him too weak to even read a speech he had prepared.

He famously led a 25-day fast in 1968 to rededicate himself ... Alcala recounted in his keynote speech. “So I would get up in the middle of the night. Cesar would have a driver waiting for ...

The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez ... and a 25-day fast in 1968 that left him too weak to even read a speech he had prepared.