1993
Cesar Chavez, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers (born 1927)
Cesar Chavez, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers (born 1927)
Cesar Chavez
American civil rights activist (1927–1993)
- Died
- 1993
Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez was an American labor unionist and political activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Ideologically, his worldview combined leftism with Catholic social teaching.