Cesar Chavez

Filipino and Mexican American farmworkers united in 1965 to strike against California grape growers, under the stewardship of Filipino labor leader Larry Itliong and one of the founders of the National Farm Workers Association, César Chavez.

Most farmworkers in the United States today aren’t represented by labor unions, but United Farm Workers is known by many as their voice.

While Cesar E. Chavez and Dolores Huerta's names were once inseparable, elected leaders and community members are initiating efforts to rename some buildings, schools and streets after Huerta alone.

An official statement from the United Farm Workers – the union Chavez built in the early 1960s – pierced through rumors about the late leader.

An analysis by The California Newsroom — a collaborative of public media outlets, including NPR — found over 65 locations in the Golden State bearing the name of the late labor leader.

Allegations of sexual misconduct against late civil rights leader and founder of the United Farm Workers, Cesar E. Chavez, broke out in the open Wednesday after one of his closest allies in the movement spoke out.

Fresno's Azteca Theater was the focal point of Fresno's Latino community in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, hosting Mexico's biggest film stars and a stop on Cesar Chavez's march to Sacramento in 1966.

Born in Delano, the theater group has a long legacy dramatizing the stories of those who work in California's farm fields.

In a heated exchange, Senator Kennedy told the sheriff to "read the Constitution" after he testified his deputies had arrested people who had not broken the law.

“We’re here to do two things: One, to honor Cesar Chavez and his legacy. But number two is to recognize the workers, the immigrant workers, that contribute so much to our economy.”