Cesar Chavez
Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist (1927-1993) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 66
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 (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW).
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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 National Farm Workers Association (NFWA)[a] 1965 rent strike in response to the Tulare County Housing Authority raising their rents.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/The_Movement_August_1965_Volume_1_Issue_8.pdf/page1-500px-The_Movement_August_1965_Volume_1_Issue_8.pdf.jpg)
The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA)[a] 1965 rent strike in response to the Tulare County Housing Authority raising their rents.
The Forty Acres complex in Delano, which Chavez established as his headquarters, was made a National Landmark in 2008.
National Farm Workers Association buttons advertising their campaigns
The Santa Rita Hall was used as a meeting place for a local Chicano group. Chavez undertook his Arizona fast there.
Chavez in 1972Awards
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Ideologically, his worldview combined leftism with Catholic social teaching.
