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Cesar Chavez Mural - School Essays

Cesar Chavez Mural

The artist who painted the was Emigdio Vazquez. He painted the mural as a tribute to Cesar Chavez, because Emigdio wanted to paint a heroic and poigmant mural taht would celebrate his life and all what Cesar did for the farm workers. On the mural Cesar Chavez is surrounded by some of his compatriots in the farm workers movement, like Dolores Huerta, Luis Valdez, Fred Ross, Sr. and many others. It also includes anonymous images of people who admired Cesar Chavez during his movement that demanded respect, dignity and social justice for them.
Cesar Chavez was a nationally recognized chicano leader and organizer of the civil rights movement, during the 1960's and 1970's. He was born in ...

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he created the National Farm Workers Association ( now the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO). He received help from Dolores Huerta, Gilberto Padilla, Fred Ross Sr. and many others. In the mid 1960's, the union boycotted and striked many agricultural products with progressive succes. In 1975, the California Labor Relations Act was passed largely due to the work of Chavez and the UFWA. Cesar Chavez died in 1993.
Dolores Huerta was bornon April 10, 1930 in a mining town in northern New Mexico. Her father, Juan Fernandez, was a miner, field worker, union activist and State Assemblyman. Her mother, Alicia Chavez was a businesswoman who owned a restaurant and a 70-room hotel, which often put up farm worker families for free. In 1955, Dolores Huerta was a member of the Stockton chapter of the Community Service Organization ("CSO"), that was started by Fred Ross, Sr. Dolores organized and found the Agricultural Workers Association in 1960. In 1962, she lobbied in ...

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Added: 9/25/2007 08:43:27 AM
Category: American History
Type: Premium Paper
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