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List of people from San Jose, California
César Chávez, farm labor leader
Chávez
Colegio César Chávez, a college named in honor of labor leader César Chávez
John F. Henning
He was a close friend and ally of labor leader César Chávez, and helped the United Farm Workers win passaged of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act.
Manuel Gregorio Acosta
Portrait of labor leader César Chávez by Manuel Gregorio Acosta, 1969
Peter Edelman
Edelman worked as a Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy from 1964 to 1968, accompanying Kennedy to his meeting with labor leader Cesar Chavez.
Central Valley (California)
It was in the Central Valley, especially in and around Delano, that farm labor leader Cesar Chavez organized Mexican American grape pickers into a union in the 1960s, the National Farmworkers Association (NFWA), in order to improve their working conditions.
Julian Nava
In 1993, Nava was one of the pallbearers selected for the funeral of the labor leader Cesar Chavez.
List of people from California
César Chávez, American labor leader
September 30
1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
List of Hispanic and Latino Americans
Cesar Chavez, labor leader
Norma Chavez
Rep. Chávez filed legislation and led the historical initiative in the Texas House of Representatives, declaring the first Texas holiday honoring a Latino, for civil rights activist and labor leader César Chávez.
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Martin Garbus
Represented civil rights leader Cesar Chavez in free speech, commercial and criminal cases in California and elsewhere in the United States, all in support of the United Farm Workers.
25th & Commercial (San Diego Trolley station)
The stop has been dedicated to Hispanic civil rights leader Cesar Chavez.
25th & Commerical (San Diego Trolley station)
The stop has been dedicated to Hispanic civil rights leader Cesar Chavez.
Richard Polanco
Polanco authored legislation that created the California state holiday honoring the legendary labor and civil rights leader, Cesar Chavez.
University of California, San Diego
It includes representations of Chicano civil rights leaders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta as well as the signature kiosk structure at Chicano Park.
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Primary boycott
Beginning in California in the 1960s the United Farm Workers union, led by Cesar Chavez, conducted a series of boycotts of table grapes and iceberg lettuce and some California wine as a part of an effort to gain bargaining recognition from California's agribusiness industry.
King and Story
In the 1930s, future agricultural labor union leader César Chávez and his family moved into the neighborhood.
Carla Anderson Hills
In fact, the first time Mexican-Americans were honored with this award was November 12, 1990, one of whom was the union leader, Cesar Chavez
Lois Rosenthal
Her work on behalf of California lettuce field workers led to a friendship with union leader Cesar Chavez.
Delano, California
The National Farm Workers' Association (NFWA), a largely Hispanic union led by Cesar Chavez, joined with strike within a week.
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Salad Bowl strike
Even as UFW leader César Chávez went on a hunger strike to protest the Teamsters' actions and a state district court imposed a temporary injunction to preempt UFW members from walking off the job, the UFW held secret talks with the Teamsters to avert a strike by the UFW.
Coachella, California
The agricultural area surrounding Coachella was where the United Farm Workers union staged strikes and protests, including visits by UFW leader Cesar Chavez.
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Keene, California
The headquarters of the United Farm Workers (UFW), a national farmworkers organization organized and led by Cesar Chavez, is located in Keene, and is sometimes referred to as "Nuestra Señora Reina de La Paz".
Tehachapi, California
The headquarters of the United Farm Workers, a national farmworker's organization that was founded and led by Cesar Chavez, is located 10 miles (20 km) to the west at Keene.
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Gwen Hennessey
She also helped Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers, organize migrant workers in California.
Coachella, California
Due to a high percentage of Hispanics in the city, Coachella was a scene of Chicano political activism including protests and visits by United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Chicano
Inspired by the courage of the farmworkers, by the California strikes led by César Chávez, and by the Anglo-American youth revolt of the period, many Mexican-American university students came to participate in a crusade for social betterment that was known as the Chicano movement.
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Mariano Laya Armington
Mariano later continued organizing farm workers with Phillip Vera Cruz, first under the NFWA, and under the UFW Union led by Cesar Chavez.
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Delano grape strike
One week after the strike began, the predominantly Mexican-American National Farmworkers Association, led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, joined the strike, and eventually the two groups merged, forming the United Farm Workers of America in August 1966.
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Delano grape strike
This was an attempt to pressure the growers and the state government to answer the demands of the Mexican and Filipino farm workers which represented the Filipino-dominated Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the Mexican-dominated National Farm Workers Association, led by Cesar Chavez.
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Norma Chavez
Rep. Chávez filed legislation and led the historical initiative in the Texas House of Representatives, declaring the first Texas holiday honoring a Latino, for civil rights activist and labor leader César Chávez.
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Great American Boycott
"The boycott grew from an idea hatched by a small band of grass-roots advocates in Los Angeles, inspired by the farmworker movement of the 1960's led by Cesar Chavez and Bert Corona.
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