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Cesar Chavez Quotes that Can Enrich Your Life

Cesar Chavez is a prolific author who defended the rights of farm workers in America. According to “Las Culturas” he was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona. There he encountered “first-hand” the injustices that the ruling society inflicted on the working class. These experiences eventually led him to create the United Farm Workers […]

Chicano’s Civil Rights: United Farm Workers and Other Significant Movements of the Era

The Chicano Movement consisted of hundreds of organizations focusing on a variety of issues. These organizations could be divided into those associations that sought to work through the system and those that called for a major restructuring of the system. As the Chicano movement began in the mid – sixties, the moderates prevailed. The institutions […]