Cesar Chavez

Fort Worth City Council member Carlos Flores listens during a MedStar board of directors meeting Nov. 21, 2024.

Fort Worth official wants to make Cesar Chavez Day a paid holiday. It would cost $3.4M

In an effort to honor Latino history and further representation across the city, Fort Worth City Council member Carlos Flores wants to make Cesar Chavez Day a paid holiday for all city employees.

A black-and-white photo of Cesar Chavez, a man with short black hear and wearing a collared shirt, speaking as he looks to the side of the frame. Behind him on the wall are multiple posters, one of La Virgen de Guadalupe and one with an illustration of a bunch of grapes and the word "BOYCOTT."

Government

Tarrant County keeps Cesar Chavez Day as residents ask to preserve holiday in the future

Miranda Suarez

Tarrant County was considering switching out Cesar Chavez Day for Veterans Day on the county calendar.

Community Activists gather in front of the Tarrant County Administration Building Monday, August 19, to protest a possible change to the county holiday calendar which would replace Cesar Chavez Day with Veterans Day.

Government

After pushback, Tarrant County set to approve Cesar Chavez Day on its holiday calendar

Megan Cardona

Cesar Chavez Day has been recognized in Tarrant County since 2001. A proposed agenda item that was removed as of Monday afternoon would have replaced it with Veterans Day.

Jose Martinez was 14 when he came to the U.S. from Mexico to work in agriculture. He became an activist after years of enduring tough working conditions.

They put food on our tables but live in the shadows. This man is fighting to be seen

Ximena Bustillo

Jose Martinez has picked America's food for decades. With all that experience on different farms, he saw workers lacking labor protections. Now he works to give farmworkers more rights.

Julie Ch谩vez Rodr铆guez at the White House on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Ch谩vez Rodr铆guez is leaving her job as a senior adviser to run President Biden's reelection campaign.

Julie Ch谩vez Rodr铆guez grew up in the labor movement. Now she runs Biden's campaign

Franco Ordo帽ez

Ch谩vez Rodr铆guez is the granddaughter of labor leader C茅sar Ch谩vez. President Biden has chosen her to run his reelection campaign.

Dolores Huerta stands for the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish at the New Mexico Statehouse on Feb. 27, 2019.

News

Fort Worth Honors Latino Activists With Street Names

Hady Mawajdeh

For nearly a decade, Fort Worth activist Alberto Govea has been fighting to get a street named after C茅sar Ch谩vez and Dolores Huerta. This week, the Fort鈥�

San Diego high school students await a bus ride to Blythe, Calif., to go pick cantaloupes in the summer of 1965. They were recruited as part of the A-TEAM, a government program to replace migrant farm workers with high school students.

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers

Gustavo Arellano

In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.

United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta at the <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/16/440861458/grapes-of-wrath-the-forgotten-filipinos-who-led-a-farmworker-revolution">Delano grape workers strike</a> in Delano, Calif., 1966. The strike set in motion the modern farmworkers movement.

Dolores Huerta: The Civil Rights Icon Who Showed Farmworkers 'S铆 Se Puede'

Maria Godoy

A key architect of the nationwide grape boycott that galvanized the farmworkers' rights movement, her legacy has long been overshadowed. A new film aims to change that. Huerta speaks with NPR.

Cesar Chavez, the head of the United Farm Workers Union, calls for the resignation of Walter Kintz, the first legal counsel for the state Agriculture Labor Relations Board, in Sacramento, Calif., on Sept. 16, 1975. Chavez's efforts in California culminated in landmark legislation that protected the rights of the state's farmworkers and created the ALRB.

Cesar Chavez: The Life Behind A Legacy Of Farm Labor Rights

Maureen Pao

From his earliest days picking peas to improving wages and working conditions as a union leader, Cesar Chavez dedicated his life to giving voice to the exploited men and women who grow America's food.

Justino DeLeon, 58, stands in front of his home in Pharr, Texas. A former watermelon picker; he retired from farm work when he fell off a melon truck and hurt his arm.

In South Texas, Fair Wages Elude Farmworkers, 50 Years After Historic Strike

John Burnett

Farmworkers in South Texas marched 200 miles for better wages and working conditions. But the strike ultimately failed, and workers today face the same problem: growers who systematically underpay.

Filipino farmworkers, including Larry Itliong (left), were the first to walk out of vineyards, prompting the Delano Grape Strike. They would join forces with Mexican laborers led by Cesar Chavez to form the United Farm Workers.

Grapes Of Wrath: The Forgotten Filipinos Who Led A Farmworker Revolution

Lisa Morehouse

Cesar Chavez inspired the world; Larry Itliong inspired Cesar Chavez. In 1965, the Filipino laborer led California grape pickers on a strike that would spark the modern farmworker movement.

Texas News

Industrial Blvd. in Dallas Gets a New Name

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