United Farm Workers Archives

Who Was Cesar Chavez—and Who Will He Become?

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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers, eventually became the symbolic leader of the entire Mexican American community of the 1960s and 1970s. Indeed, he was eventually enshrined in the pantheon of modern leftist activists and civil rights leaders alongside Saul Alinsky, Martin Luther King Jr., and Betty Friedan.… Continue reading Who Was Cesar Chavez—and Who Will He Become?