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César Chávez Day of Service

Online Sources

California Fields - 1973 - Susan Due Pearcy (UCSD Farmworker Movement Documentation Project)

California Fields - 1973 - Susan Due Pearcy  (Farmworker Movement Documentation Project - UC San Diego Library) 


Organizations

 
"Begun in the early 1960s by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other organizers, the United Farm Workers of America is the nation's first enduring and largest farm workers' union. The UFW continues its activism in major agricultural sectors, chiefly in California."
 
"Formerly the National Farm Workers Service Center, the Cesar Chavez Foundation continues to expand on Cesar’s early work and vision to create a movement to improve the quality of life for Latinos and working people."

 

Resource Guides and Articles

 

"Primary source accounts: photographs, oral histories, videos, essays and historical documents from the United Farm Worker Delano Grape Strikers and the UFW Volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement."
Resource guide from the Library of Congress.
Biographical article on Chavez's legacy (NPR).