Cesar Chavez looking over proposed union contracts. . Reproduced by permission. United States 1965-1970 During the years before 1965, the agricultural...

Born March 31, 1927 Yuma, Arizona Died April 23, 1993 San Luis, Arizona Migrant workers union leader César Chávez. © ....

César Chávez Born March 31, 1927 Yuma, Arizona Died April 23, 1993 San Luis, Arizona Labor leader, founder of the United Farm Workers, and civil rights leader César Chávez is widely considered to have been the greatest...

Rising from the status of a migrant worker toiling in the agricultural fields of Yuma, Arizona, to the leader of America's first successful farm worker's union, Cesar Chavez was once described by Robert F. Kennedy as "one of the...

César Estrada Chávez was born near Yuma, Arizona, on March 31, 1927. Eleven years later, his family lost their farm and joined several hundred thousand other migrants working California's crops under terrible conditions. By the...

(born March 31, 1927, Yuma, Arizona, U.S.—died April 23, 1993, San Luis, Arizona) organizer of migrant American farmworkers and founder of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in 1962. Chavez, who was a farm labourer himself, grew up in a...

(born March 31, 1927, Yuma, Ariz., U.S.—died April 23, 1993, San Luis, Ariz.) U.S. organizer and leader of migrant farmworkers. As the child of Mexican American migrant labourers, he spent his early years in a succession of migrant camps,...