LOS ANGELES --- Since his death in 1993, Cesar Chavez has become a national icon, his birthday is celebrated as a holiday in three states, thoroughfares in Los Angeles, Albuquerque and Portland, Ore., have been renamed in his memory. The Keene, Calif., headquarters of the United Farm Workers, the union that Chavez founded with Dolores Huerta, is
Cesar Chavez Biographer Aims To Go Beyond Labor Activist’s Saintly Image
Cesar Chavez has been mythologized to the point of saintliness, but one biographer’s new book brings the activist’s image back down to Earth.