Cesar Chavez
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Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez was an American labor unionist and political activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later me
Chavez in 1979
Dolores Huerta, pictured in 2016, was a key ally of Chavez's in his formation of the NFWA.
Cesar Chavez (center) on a march from the Mexican border to Sacramento with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 1975
The Forty Acres complex in Delano, which Chavez established as his headquarters, was made a National Landmark in 2008.
United Farm Workers
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The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers, is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It was founded in 1966 through the merger of two workers' rights o
Cesar Chavez
…he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Ideologically, his worldview combined leftist approaches with Catholic social teaching. Born in Yuma, Arizona, to a Mexican American family…
César Chávez speaking at the Delano UFW−United Farm Workers rally in Delano, California, June 1972
Dolores Huerta in 2016, speaking at a Hillary Clinton rally
Arturo "Artie" Rodríguez, former President of the UFW
The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) 1965 rent strike in response to the Tulare County Housing Authority raising their rents