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	Cesar Estrada Chavez
		Cesar Estrada Chavez, 1927–93, was an American agrarian labor leader, born near Yuma, Ariz. A migrant worker, he became involved (1952) in the self-help Community Service Organization (CSO) in California, working among Mexicans and Mexican Americans; from 1958 to 1962 he was its general director.
		Chavez also launched (1968) a boycott against the table grape growers, mobilizing consumer support throughout the United States.
		Chavez expanded its efforts to include all California vegetable pickers and launched a lettuce boycott, as well as extending his organizational efforts to Florida citrus workers.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/cesarchavezbio.html (302 words)

	Cesar Chavez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		César Estrada Chavez, named after his 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 (16 ha) of land.
		Cesar went to San Jose where he met and was influenced by Father Donald McDonnell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cesar_Estrada_Chavez (1502 words)

	ICUG Celebrates - Cesar Chavez (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The reason was Cesar Chavez's tireless leadership and nonviolent tactics that included the Delano grape strike, his fasts that focused national attention on farm workers problems, and the 340-mile march from Delano to Sacramento in 1966.
		Cesar Chavez and the union sought recognition of the importance and dignity of all farm workers.
		Cesar Chavez had the foresight to train his union workers and then to send many of them into the cities where they were to use the boycott and picket as their weapon.
	www.icug.us /hispanic/icug_cesar_chavez.html (1437 words)

	Chavez, Cesar Estrada
		Chavez strove to call the public's attention to the struggles of farm workers for better pay and safer working conditions, leading to strikes and boycotts of citrus fruits, lettuce, and grapes in the early 1970s, but disagreement and exploitation of migrant farm labourers continued despite his successes.
		Chavez became general director of the CSO in 1958, but left in 1962 to form the NFWA.
		In 1965, Chavez and the NFWA led a strike of California grape-pickers to demand higher wages, and also encouraged all Americans to boycott table grapes as a show of support.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0027448.html (426 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)

	Cesar Chavez, Biography
		Cesar Chavez and the union sought recognition of the importance and dignity of all farm workers.
		Cesar Chavez had the foresight to train his union workers and then to send many of them into the cities where they were to use the boycott and picket as their weapon.
		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.
	www.lasculturas.com /aa/bio/bioCesarChavez.htm (2689 words)

	Latino Outreach Magazine
		Cesar Estrada Chavez, Mexican American agricultural migrant worker labor union organizer and leader, used nonviolent action to gain recognition and respect of migrant farm laborers.
		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 Chavez
		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.
		But, Cesar Chavez, who insisted that those who labor in the earth were entitled to share fairly in the rewards of their toil, would never be forgotten.
		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.thirdworldtraveler.com /Heroes/Cesar_Chavez.html (4414 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)

	Cesar E Chavez Foundation - An American Hero
		A true American hero, Cesar was a civil rights, Latino, farm worker, and labor leader; a religious and spiritual figure; a community servant and social entrepreneur; a crusader for nonviolent social change; and an environmentalist and consumer advocate.
		Cesar's dream, however, was to create an organization to protect and serve farm workers, whose poverty and disenfranchisement he had shared.
		Cesar Chavez-a common man with an uncommon vision for humankind-stood for equality, justice, and dignity for all Americans.
	www.chavezfoundation.org /cesarechavez.html (845 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Chavez, Cesar Estrada (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chavez also launched (1968) a boycott against the table grape growers, mobilizing consumer support throughout the United States.
		Chavez expanded its efforts to include all California vegetable pickers and launched a lettuce boycott, as well as extending his organizational efforts to Florida citrus workers.
		A hail to Cesar Chavez: during his lifetime, Cesar Chavez led a national movement to better the lives of migrant farm workers; today, legislators and others consider ways to honor the man who helped lead that struggle for more than three decades.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/ChavezCes.asp (413 words)

	Cesar Estrada Chavez was born in Yuma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cesar Estrada Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona.
		Using non-violent tactics, such as fasting, boycotts and strikes, Chavez was successful in accomplishing his goal of giving farm workers the respect and dignity they deserved.
		The Cesar E. Chavez Student Conference and Scholarship Competition was initiated in 2002 by Debra Monroe, Curtis Hilyard, and Kristy Smith— minors in the Ethnic Studies Program, who decided that student scholarship needed to be recognized and rewarded, and diversity needed to be promoted and fostered here at UCCS.
	web.uccs.edu /ethnicstudies/cesar_chavez_guidelines.htm (478 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.
	latino.sscnet.ucla.edu /research/chavez/bio (1134 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)

	CESAR ESTRADA CHAVEZ
		Cesar Chavez was raised in a migrant farm worker family in the desperately impoverished eras of the Dust Bowl and the Depression.
		Chavez was a disciple of nonviolence, a student of Gandhi's example of fasting, to call attention to injustices.
		His death in April was a shock and a profound loss to Mexican-Americans who saw him as their one true leader-a man whose ideas and motive transcended politics to reach into deeper issues of justices and equality, of uplifting people.
	www.tejanoahp.org /cesarchavez/cc_bio.html (533 words)

	Profile: Cesar Chavez (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born March 31, 1927, on the small farm near Yuma, Arizona that his grandfather homesteaded during the 1880s, Cesar Estrada Chavez began working in the fields at age 10 when his father lost their land during the Depression.
		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.
	www.sacbee.com /news/projects/people_of_century/hum_heroes/chavez.html (775 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)

	Cesar Chavez (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Robert F. Kennedy called Cesar Estrada Chavez "one of the heroic figures of our time," for he will be remembered as one of the foremost leaders of organized labor in the United States.
		Born in 1927 on a small farm near Yuma, Arizona, Chavez was introduced to the life of migrant farming at an early age.
		Cesar Chavez died in 1993 and was laid to rest with more than 40,000 mourners attending his funeral.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~laws/diversity/chavez.html (614 words)

	Cesar Chavez (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cesar Estrada Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927.
		Cesar E. Chavez organized farm workers into the United Farm Workers (UFW).
		The late Senator Robert F. Kennedy called Cesar "one of the heroic figures of our time," and flew to Delano to be with him when he ended the fast.
	www.salsa.net /peace/faces/chavez.html (237 words)

	Cesar Estrada Chavez Study Act
		H. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of sites associated with the life of Cesar Estrada Chavez and the farm labor movement to determine appropriate methods for their preservation and interpretation.
		To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of sites associated with the life of Cesar Estrada Chavez and the farm labor movement to determine appropriate methods for their preservation and interpretation.
		(1) Cesar Estrada Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, on a small farm near Yuma, Arizona.
	www.theorator.com /bills107/hr2966.html (456 words)

	Posters - Karin Jacobson: Cesar Estrada Chavez
		Cesar Estrada Chavez (1927-1993) devoted his life to organizing migrant farm workers, particularly in the Chicano community.
		After his own family was forced off of their farm during the depression, they joined the growing population of migrant workers in California.
		Cesar Chavez has been an inspiration for both the labor and Chicano movements, and supporters of peace and justice everywhere.
	www.northlandposter.com /catalog/p530.html (136 words)

	Cesar Estrada Chavez — Infoplease.com
		Cesar Estrada Chavez - An American agrarian labor leader
		Building strength: a decade after the death of Cesar Chavez, the union he founded seeks to preserve his legacy of justice for farm......
		A hail to Cesar Chavez: during his lifetime, Cesar Chavez led a national movement to better the lives of migrant farm workers; today,......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0811583.html (405 words)

	Biography of Cesar Chavez
		César Estrada Chávez died peacefully in his sleep on April 23, 1993 near Yuma, Arizona, a short distance from the small family farm in the Gila River Valley where he was born more than 66 years before.
		The founder and president of the United Farm Workers of America, AFLCIO was in Yuma helping UFW attorneys defend the union against a lawsuit brought by Bruce Church Inc., a giant Salinas, Calif.based lettuce and vegetable producer.
		On April 29, 1993, César Estrada Chávez was honored in death by those he led in life.
	www.mu.oregonstate.edu /cesarchavez/bio.htm (2566 words)

	Santa Barbara School Districts: Cesar Chavez Charter School
		Cesar Estrada Chavez Dual Language Immersion Charter School
		The Cesar Estrada Chavez Dual Language Immersion Charter School opened its doors in the fall of 2000.
		This school of choice offers a balanced curriculum, incorporating state standards in the areas of language arts, mathematics, science and technology, social studies, music and the arts, physical education, and citizenship.
	www.sbsdk12.org /schools/elementary/cesarchavez.shtml (439 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - César Chávez (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Renowned labor leader César Estrada Chávez was raised in a poor family that lost its farm during the Depression and was forced into migrant farm labor when Chávez was only ten years old.
		Chávez was born to Librado Chávez and Juana Estrada on March 31, 1927, on the family's farm in Yuma, Arizona.
		Ferriss, Susan, and Ricardo Sandoval, The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement, Harcourt Brace, 1997.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/chh/bio/chavez_c.htm (1985 words)

	Chávez, César Estrada - Further Reading - MSN Encarta
		Chávez, César Estrada - Further Reading - MSN Encarta
		Collins, David R. Farmworker's Friend: The Story of Cesar Chavez.
		Cesar E. Chavez: The Fight for Farm Workers' Rights.
	encarta.msn.com /readings_761563959/Cesar_Chavez.html (106 words)

	Cesar Chavez - Wikiquote
		History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
		César Estrada Chávez (31 March 1927 - 23 April 1993) Labor organizer, social activist.
		Cesar E. Chavez and His Legacy" at UCLA
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Ch%C3%A1vez (7698 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cesar Estrada Chavez (Labor, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Cesar Estrada Chavez (Labor, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Cesar Estrada Chavez[sA´sAr AstrA´thA shA´vez] Pronunciation Key, 1927–93, American agrarian labor leader, b.
		See J. Levy, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa (1975); R. Franchere, Cesar Chavez (1988).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/ChavezCes.html (417 words)

	BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News » Tribute to Cesar Estrada Chavez
		Editor's Note: This essay, "Tribute to Cesar Estrada Chavez," was written by Minh Jeffrey Anh Le of San Francisco, who shares it with his schoolmates by reciting it at an all school assembly on March 31, 2006, Cesar Chavez Day.
		Many people know me, Cesar Chavez, as the man who helped Mexican-American workers get their rights, but many sacrifices and hardships were made, making the struggle truly difficult.
		During the period of a trial against a lettuce grower, I died in my sleep on the 23rd of April 1993.
	www.beyondchron.org /news/index.php?itemid=3114 (833 words)

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