On Cesar Chavez Day observed, a look through the archives:
Feb. 2, 1979: Cesar Chavez speaks to members of the United Farm Workers during a rally in the Imperial Valley. The UFW was staging a lettuce growers strike. )When Chavez died on April 23, 1993, staff writer George Ramos wrote The Times obituary published the next morning. He reported:
"He was our Gandhi," said Democratic state Sen. Art Torres, a prominent Chicano politician from Los Angeles' Eastside, upon hearing news of Chavez's death."He was our Dr. Martin Luther King. Feb. 1, 1979: Cesar Chavez talks with United Farm Workers members during a lettuce strike in the Imperial Valley near El Centro.
March 10, 1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy offers Chavez food during a special Mass in Delano attended by 6,000 people. Chavez ended a 25-day fast that he had undertaken to rededicate the farmworkers' movement to nonviolence. His wife, Helen Chavez, is at left. Sept. 15, 1967: Cesar Chavez, then director of the UFW Organizing Committee, walks the picket line in front of the Ford Motor Co. plant in Pico Rivera in support of striking United Auto Workers. With Chavez is Paul Schrade, UAW western director.June 24, 1985: Chavez leads a march during a grape boycott rally near a supermarket at 3rd Street and Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles.
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