This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. One summer day in 1988, before the sun rose, my parents packed my three younger sisters and me into our beige ...
A blanketed figure stood Wednesday in the Peace Garden of California’s Fresno State University like a shadowy ghost. The large black sheet awkwardly held taut with plastic binder clips hid the statue ...
California was the first to designate the activist’s birthday as a state holiday. It is enshrined in state law. By Laurel Rosenhall Reporting from Sacramento More than 25 years ago, California became ...
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For many Latinos, Cesar Chavez seemed like a saint. There have in fact been efforts to canonize him. I lived in Los Angeles for a summer when I was an undergraduate, and I frequently drove down Cesar ...
The image of César Chávez, with a thick crop of hair framing a stern demeanor, stands at the end of a row of social justice giants artistically depicted in Santa Ana, from Martin Luther King Jr. to ...
An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that the United Farm Workers co-founder groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement. Cesar Chavez during a ...