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	Cesar Chavez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cesar Estrada Chavez, was named after grandfather, Cesario, was born near Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927.
		Cesar's father had agreed to clear 80 acres of land and add to the home in exchange for the deed to 40 acres of land.
		Cesar went to San Jose where he met and was influenced by Father Donald McDonnell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cesar_Chavez (1483 words)

	Cesar Chavez, Biography
		Cesar Chavez and the union sought recognition of the importance and dignity of all farm workers.
		Cesar and eight other UFW leaders and staff were staying at her house in a poor farm worker neighborhood not far from the Mexican border.
		Chavez's successor, UFW President Arturo Rodriguez, thanked the president on behalf of the United Farm Workers and said, "Every day in California and in other states where farm workers are organizing, Cesar Chavez lives in their hearts.
	www.lasculturas.com /aa/bio/bioCesarChavez.htm (2689 words)

	Julio César Chávez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His first victory over Taylor, a knockout win with two seconds to go in the last round and with Chavez behind on the scorecards, proved controversial as boxing fans disputed the stoppage until their rematch, which Chavez won by eighth round knockout.
		During the buildup to the fight Haugen sneered at Chavez's famous unbeaten record, (then at 82-0), saying that most of Chavez's opponnents were "Tijuana cab drivers that my mother could have knocked out".
		Whatever anger Chavez felt, (and there was evidence that it was considerable), he suppressed it and performed in a cool and efficent manner as he went about demolishing Haugen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julio_Cesar_Chavez (837 words)

	The My Hero Project - CESAR CHAVEZ
		Cesar Chavez did a lot of things to better the lives of Mexican farm workers at a time when no one knew about the poor working standards of migrant farm workers.
		Chavez stood up to the owners on behalf of all of the Mexican people who were afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs and being deported, if they were illegal immigrants.
		Cesar Chavez had the foresight to train his union workers and then send many of them into the cities where they were to use the boycott and picket as their weapon.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=c_chavez (1833 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Cesar Chavez
		Cesar Estrada Chavez was born March 31, 1927 near Yuma, Arizona.
		Chavez was named after his grandfather, who escaped from slavery on a Mexican ranch and arrived in Arizona during the 1880s.
		Cesar Chavez (Hispanics of Achievement) by Consuelo Rodriguez
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Chavez.html (666 words)

	Fight in the Fields - CESAR CHAVEZ \| PBS
		Chavez didn’t want to call it a union, because of the long history of failed attempts to create agricultural unions, and the bitter memories of those who had been promised justice and then abandoned.
		Chavez’ understanding of the relationship between economic issues and political participation was the starting point for a growing wave of Latino activism and electoral activity, that would eventually lead to the election of thousands of Latino officials and a major shift in the American political landscape.
		Chavez had never expected that victory in the battle for farmworkers’ rights would be achieved during his lifetime.
	www.pbs.org /itvs/fightfields/cesarchavez.html (1668 words)

	Digital History
		Chavez's sympathy for the plight of migrant farm workers came naturally.
		In March 1966, Chavez led a 250-mile Easter march from Delano to Sacramento to dramatize the plight of migrant farm laborers.
		A staunch apostle of nonviolence, Chavez was deeply troubled by violent incidents that marred the strike.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /mexican_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=110 (1425 words)

	IMA Hero: Cesar E. Chavez Biography
		Cesar Estrada Chavez was one of the greatest labor leaders in the United States.
		Cesar Chavez was born on a small farm near Yuma, Arizona, on March 31, 1927.
		In 1946, Cesar was discharged from the U.S. Navy.
	www.imahero.com /is/bios/cesarchavez.html (3099 words)

	Latino Outreach Magazine
		Cesar Chavez never ceased in working for achievement of these objectives within the major goal of obtaining human treatment and dignity for the poor, worker-class migrant field worker.
		Cesar Chavez was born in 1927 in a farm near Yuma, Arizona.
		Cesar Chavez believed that the truest act of courage was to sacrifice oneself for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice.
	www.asu.edu /clas/hrc/latino/chavez/chavez.intro.html (1546 words)

	CESAR E. CHAVEZ
		Cesar was born March 31, 1927, on the small farm near Yuma, Arizona that his grandfather homesteaded during the 1880's.
		Cesar Chavez passed away on April 23, 1993, at the age of 66.
		On Cesar's birthday, March 31st, 1994, under the leadership of his son-in-law and successor Arturo S. Rodriguez, the UFW marched 343 miles from Delano to Sacramento, echoing Cesar's historic 1966 peregrinación and demonstrating the strength of the UFW and the fact that Cesar's dream of a national union for farm workers remains a possibility.
	clnet.sscnet.ucla.edu /research/chavez/bio (1134 words)

	Mexico Trek: August 14 Dispatches: Team
		Cesar Chavez was the founder and president of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, which was the first successful farm workers union in the United States.
		Chavez was born on his family's farm in Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927, where he spent the first ten years of his life, helping with the difficult job of maintaining a farm in the desert.
		Cesar joined the Navy during the end of WWII and was proud to be serving his country.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/mexico/81498/81498team.html (719 words)

	MY HERO: FREEDOM HEROES: CESAR CHAVEZ
		Chavez stood up to the owners on behalf of all of the Mexican people who were afraid to speak out for fears of loosing their jobs and being deported, if they were illegals.
		Cesar was willing to sacrifice his own life so that the union would continue and that violence was not used.
		Cesar Chavez was a tireless advocate for migrant farm workers.
	www.myhero.com /freedom/chavez.html (1448 words)

	Cesar Chavez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1988, Chavez conducted a thirty-six day "Fast for Life" to protest the poisons and pesticides being used on plants that were having negative health impacts on workers and their families, particularly their children.
		March 31, Cesar Estrada Chavez is born in Arizona to Juana Estrada Chavez and Librado Chavez.
		Chavez's father is injured and can no longer work, thus forcing Cesar to quit school and to work the fields with his siblings.
	www.embracingcultures.com /heroes/cesar.html (782 words)

	Cesar Chavez
		The purpose of the project is to commemorate and celebrate the birthday (on March 31), the memory and the legacy of Cesar Estrada Chavez and empower the migrant farm worker (campesino) to be self-sufficient, literate, and live with dignity.
		Cesar E. Chavez (a farm worker himself) was a civil rights leader, the founder of the United Farm Workers Union, an advocate for Justice and Equality for ALL people, and dedicated his entire life to working in service of others.
		The Cesar Chavez Project has gained strength and momentum from energies and the unselfishness of other VHRC Rotarians, the Region 19 Migrant Education Program, private contributors, and fellow Rotarian J.B. Roberts and his Hunger Plus, Inc. The Hunger Plus mission is to feed the hungry and help them become self-sufficient.
	www.hungerplus.org /project-pages/chavez.htm (1004 words)

	Idaho Mountain Express: Cesar Chavez: A great American - March 30, 2005
		It is Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning in California, a day, according to the California Service Corps, when students, parents, teachers, business and community members join together to commemorate Chavez by participating in beautification projects, programs to harvest fields of excess crops, park clean-up projects, and community health fairs.
		Chavez was born (1927) and died (1993) near Yuma, Ariz., but he is remembered and associated with the giant agriculture industry of California.
		Chavez was a practical organizer who did not let his integrity and idealism get in the way of his vision.
	www.mtexpress.com /index2.php?issue_date=03-30-2005&ID=2005102361 (830 words)

	U.S. SENATOR BARBARA BOXER \| CESAR CHAVEZ DAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Delano, California, Cesar Chavez challenged the segregation policy in theaters by refusing to sit in the "Mexicans" section; he was detained by the police for one hour.
		Chavez was discharged from the Navy and returned to his family in Delano, where he resumed work in the fields.
		Chavez organized a march from the Coachella and Imperial Valleys to the United States-Mexico border to protest the use of undocumented immigrants from Mexico as strike breakers.
	boxer.senate.gov /chavez/timeline.cfm (1663 words)

	Profile: Cesar Chavez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After Chavez conducted a 25-day fast in 1968 to reaffirm the UFW's commitment to non-violence, the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy called Chavez "one of the heroic figures of our time," and flew to Delano to be with him when he ended the fast.
		Cesar called for a new worldwide grape boycott, and by 1975, a poll showed 17 million Americans were honoring the boycott.
		Chavez and his family lived in La Paz, in Keene, California, the union's headquarters east of Bakersfield.
	www.sacbee.com /news/projects/people_of_century/hum_heroes/chavez.html (775 words)

	Remembering a Modest Cesar Chavez
		In one conversation we had together I told Cesar about how successful we Chicano students at UT were at eliminating non-UFW lettuce on the campus and how we had staged a sit-in in the Governor's office, asking him to proclaim that day "Cesar Chavez" day.
		Cesar responded by telling me how students were such a powerful base of support and how their dedication and commitment helped the union accomplish its goals.
		Cesar felt that the UFW was more than just a union, that it was a movement that would not only change working conditions but also change the conditions of human life.
	www.azteca.net /aztec/modest_cesar.html (1356 words)

	USPS - Sept. 18, 2002 - Cesar E. Chavez Postage Stamp Unveiled At United States Capitol
		A second-generation American, Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, near his family's farm in Yuma, Ariz. At age 10, his family became migrant farm workers after losing their farm in the Great Depression.
		Throughout his youth and into his adulthood, Chavez migrated across the Southwest laboring in the fields and vineyards, where he was exposed to the hardships and injustices of farm worker life.
		In 1962 Chavez resigned from the CSO to establish the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America.
	www.usps.com /news/2002/philatelic/sr02_072.htm (817 words)

	Mass honors Cesar Chavez \| The-Tidings.com
		The Mass honoring labor leader Cesar Chavez began with a procession of workers clad in hardhats and orange reflective vests, maids' uniforms and colorful union t-shirts.
		"Cesar's gift was to recognize the anger that raged in the heart of those who witnessed the abuse of farmworkers --- the malnutrition of children, their exposure to pesticides --- and anger he effectively transformed by organizing participation in the non-violent response to the grape boycott," said Bishop Zavala.
		That Cesar Chavez was much more than just a leader for immigrant farmworkers was reflected in the multicultural makeup of those who came to pay their respects.
	www.the-tidings.com /2005/0408/chavez.htm (387 words)

	Cesar Chavez Biography
		Cesar Chavez was born on a farm homesteaded by his grandfather near Yuma, Arizona.
		The land was lost during the Great Depression, and at age ten Chavez became a migrant farm worker, moving throughout the Southwest with his family and thousands of other displaced and impoverished field and vineyard laborers.
		Following Navy duty at the end of World War II, Chavez married and returned to work in the fields around Delano, California; this move was the beginning of his life-long commitment to bettering the lives of economically exploited and often racially degraded farm workers.
	www.americanswhotellthetruth.org /pgs/portraits/Cesar_Chavez.html (412 words)

	Olvera-Street.com - Cesar E. Chavez
		Cesar’s grandfather was an immigrant from Chihuahua, Mexico, who came to El Paso, Texas seeking a better life for his family.
		Cesar’s family of 12 lost their farm in the Great Depression, and he was forced to leave school in the eighth grade to help support his family in the fields full-time as a migrant farmworker.
		Cesar Chavez, who insisted that those who labor the earth were entitled to share the rewards of their toil, died in his sleep in 1993.
	www.olvera-street.com /html/cesar_e__chavez.html (848 words)

	Cesar Chavez Biography
		Decades later, his grandson, Cesar Chavez, would make a stand in the fields of California to fight for a better life for all farm workers.
		Cesar, was born in 1927, he was their second child and the oldest son.
		Chavez had worked part-time in the fields while he was in school.
	alpha.furman.edu /~dbost/CESARBIO.HTM (1419 words)

	Cesar Chavez Gains Grounds for Farmers
		Cesar Chavez is best known for his efforts to gain better working conditions for the thousands of workers who labored on farms for low wages and under severe conditions.
		Chavez got the idea for nonviolent actions from Martin Luther King Jr., who was a leader in the struggle for civil rights for African Americans.
		Chavez also went on hunger strikes, protesting by refusing to eat for long periods of time.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/chavez/peace_1 (126 words)

	Cesar Chavez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the winter, Cesar thinned lettuce and sugar beets, ensuring that the plants were not too close together.
		Cesar Estrada Chavez was born March 31, 1927, the oldest son of Librado and Juana Estrada Chavez.
		Chavez couldn’t read or write but she was wise and gave good advice.
	pblmm.k12.ca.us /projects/discrimination/NativeAmerican/MexicanAmerican/CesarChavez/Cesar.html (626 words)

	Cesar Chavez Story
		Ask older people for their memories of Cesar Chavez and most remember his role in the grape and lettuce boycotts in support of farm workers.
		It is a tribute to the character of Chavez that he didn?t become embittered by the events in his life.
		Chavez' father Librado was swindled out of his land holdings by Arizona businessmen and in 1938 the family headed to California in search of work.
	www.russelltexas.com /Newspaper/perspectiveMarch312002.htm (996 words)

	Cesar Chavez, Chronology
		Cesar declares a third grape boycott in 1984.
		July-August 1988--At age 61, Chavez conducts his last--and longest--public fast for 36 days in Delano to call attention to farm workers and their children stricken by pesticides.
		The Cesar Chavez-founded union organizes and bargains on behalf of major rose, mushroom, strawberry, wine grape and lettuce and vegetable workers in California, Florida and Washington state.
	www.lasculturas.com /aa/bio/bioCesarChavezChron.htm (1471 words)

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