Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez (/ ˈtʃɑːvɛz /; Latin American Spanish: [ˈtʃaβes]; – ) was an American labor unionist and political activist.
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 Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for ...
Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American labor leader and civil rights activist who dedicated his life’s work to what he called la causa (the cause): the struggle of farm workers in the United...
Cesar Chavez became the face of Latino civil and labor rights in the media and in history books, but scholars and activists are asking why "a community is only allowed to have one figure."
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Accusations of sexual abuse by the famed union leader and champion of farmworker rights Cesar Chavez broke his legacy and those who admired him.
Cesar Chavez, the late farmworker organizer who became a national civil rights icon and co-founded the United Farm Workers, is accused of abusing "young women or minors," the union said in a statement Tuesday.
Labor leader Cesar Chavez is accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls and fellow farmworker leader Dolores Huerta, according to a New York Times inquiry.
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