On July 4, 1969, at the pinnacle of the California grape boycott campaign, Cesar Chavez was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. One year later, growers finally caved. They signed contracts ...

Farmworkers in San Luis remember the legacy of Cesar Chávez. In 2000, Congress made March 31 the commemoration date for the ...

Cesar Chavez, carrying a sign calling for a boycott of table grapes, leads about 400 people ... Beyond his significant impact in California, Chavez also supported striking farm laborers in Texas ...

“I learned that Cesar Chavez led a grape boycott,” said Ramirez, adding that Chavez also practiced “huelga,” the Spanish word for strike. “He marched for days, from Delano to ...

March 31 is the birthday of Cesario Estrada Chavez, the Chicano labor ... of California and the five-year-long grape boycott. After service in the Navy, Cesar, with Dolores Huerta and other ...

I remember former UFW organizer Eliseo Medina speaking at Forty Acres in Delano during the 40th anniversary of the grape boycott ... The Crusades of Cesar Chavez” and “The Union of Their ...

See whether banks, DMV are open today as Cesar Chavez ... in the grape strike in Delano, California, wherein Filipino farmworkers demanded the minimum federal salary. The boycott of the sale ...

By then, we were no longer trying to pick grapes, which we discovered demanded skilled laborers. Of course, Chávez founded the union in Delano in 1962 and motivated farm workers to strike, boycott and ...

Ramirez, 9, a student in Norma Guerrero’s third-grade class, said that he learned during a history unit that famed American labor leader Cesar Chavez organized a nationwide grape boycott during ...