Prologue : the car pool -- The founding. The territory -- The work itself -- Childhood as destiny -- The lay Catholic activist -- The alchemist -- The organizer in Oxnard -- Climbing the fence -- A ...

When my family migrated from New México to California in the late 1960s, César E. Chávez was in the midst of his crusade to gain labor rights for the farm workers who made fortunes for grape growers ...

Cesar Chavez, the prominent labor rights activist and co-founder of United Farm Workers, is honored on Monday, March 31. Are ...

Share By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read Matt Garcia is the author of From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement . Evan Kleiman host 'Good ...

While working together at the CSO, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta discovered a common interest in organizing farm workers. Chavez’s family had been forced into migrant work in the 1930s after losing ...

The Cesar Chavez biopic that is hitting theaters Friday highlights what the Mexican-American labor leader accomplished when he founded the United Farm workers more than 50 years ago. He fought for ...

Hundreds of employees are losing jobs at a grape nursery owned by Wonderful Co., one of the state’s biggest agricultural operations. The company says it is unrelated to a contentious battle by the ...