But the old jail became historically significant after Cesar Chavez's imprisonment there. The UFWOC’s subsequent lettuce strike would become the largest farmworker strike in U.S. history.

The farmworker organizer and civil rights leader whose life and work are honored with a federal commemorative holiday is known as Cesar Chavez. March 31 is Cesar Chavez Day. But his real name was ...

In many ways, Chavez was the godfather of the Chicano Movement, the largest and most widespread civil rights movement by Mexican Americans in U.S. history. While many have written about Cesar ...

a subsidiary and programmatic effort of the Cesar Chavez Foundation ... movement was probably the broadest coalition in the history of the American civil rights movement,” Andrés says.

It was the first union contract between growers and a farm workers’ union in U.S. history. Despite the success of the march, many growers still refused to negotiate with the union. As ...

Eric Gomez, president of Golden Boy Promotions, childhood friend of Oscar De La Hoya: In Mexico, there’s a rich history of world champions. We’ve been fortunate enough to have some really big ...

The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement (University of California Press), won the Philip Taft Award for the Best Book in Labor History, 2013. He wrote this for ...

Starring Michael Pena as the titular civil rights hero, America Ferrara as his formidable wife and Rosario Dawson as his second in command, Cesar Chavez enlivens history, while managing not to ...

May 1, 2013— -- For a significant period of his storied career as a labor organizer, Cesar Chavez opposed ... rally for immigration reform. But Chavez's history with immigration is more ...

HEADLEE: So you know a lot about textbooks. What's missing from the textbook history of Cesar Chavez? GARCIA: Well, so much of the story of Chavez really happens before 1970 when we read it.

Today, Tom McCall is a revered figure in the history of Oregon politics. But had he not been pressured to do the right thing by Cesar Chavez, his legacy might have been stained by signing ...