Chavez died in his sleep on April 23, 1993, at the age of 66. The following year, PresidentBill Clintonawarded him a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. In a sign of the labor leader’s enduring influence,Barack Obamaborrowed a Chavez slogan—Si,...
To Chavez Rodriguez, her grandfather was “Tata Cesar.” But to the world, the onetime farmworker who died in 1993 was an impassioned labor and civil rights leader whose organizing work with Huerta and nonviolent protests — fasts, strikes and boycotts — led to dramatic improvements in the l...
Authorities in San Luis, a small farming town on the Mexican border about 25 miles south of Chavez’s native Yuma, said the legendary farm workers’ leader apparently died in his sleep at the home of a family friend. “He was our Gandhi,” said Democratic state Sen. Art Torres, a promi...
Farm Workers March -- In Memory of Cesar Chavez -- Some 200 turn out for march in respect of farm workers rights movement leader who diedi n 1993MARIA GARRIGA YAKIMA HERALDREPUBLIC
凯萨查维斯日。凯萨查维斯 (Cesar Chavez) 是一位墨西哥裔美国劳工运动者，也是联合农场工人联盟的领袖。二十世纪时，他是农场季节工人(migrant farm workers：为找工作四处迁徙的人)的主要发声人。他坚忍的领导能力让全国人民注意到劳工的工作环境有多糟糕，最后，他们的工作环境终于因此而获得改善。查他有...
Cesar Chavez died on April 23rd 1993 of unspecified natural causes, with some believing that his death may have been caused in part by his hunger strikes. Some quotes from Cesar Chavez "Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.” ...
Cesar Chavez died on April 23rd 1993 of unspecified natural causes, with some believing that his death may have been caused in part by his hunger strikes. Some quotes from Cesar Chavez "Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.” ...
among the most admired men in the world. So when Chavez died last Friday at the age of 66, it was no surprise that tributes and remembrances flowed in not just from the powerful political and religious leaders he knew, but also from the weak and poor, especially the field laborers he sp...
Cesar Chavez, organizer of migrant American farmworkers and a cofounder with Dolores Huerta of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in 1962. In recognition of his nonviolent activism and support of working people, he was posthumously awarded the
Cesar ChavezAmerican farmworker leader Cesar Chavez speaking at Boston University in 1990, stressing the urgency of eliminating toxic farming chemicals and discussing the dangers that pesticides pose to farmworkers and consumers alike. Cesar Chavez (born March 31, 1927, Yuma, Arizona, U.S.—died ...