Cesar Chavez  (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), later to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union. Born in Yuma, Arizona to a Mexican-American family, Chavez began his working life as a manual laborer before spending two years in the United States Navy. Relocating to California, where he married, he got involved in the Community Service Organization (CSO), through which he helped laborers register to vote.  In the 1960s he began organizing strikes among farmworkers, most notably the successful Delano grape strike of 1965–1970. Chavez emphasized direct nonviolent tactics, including pickets and boycotts, to pressure farm owners into granting strikers' demands. Cesar Chavez died in bed on April 23, 1993. He was aged 66.[409] His birthday is a federal commemorative holiday in several U.S. states, while many places are named after him, and in 1994 he posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. You will find the full transcript at https://interspanish.buzzsprout.com As always, I really appreciate your thoughts and feedback about the show. You can reach out to me : Email me episode suggestions to: [email protected] YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@interspanishpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interspanishPodcast/about/?ref=page_internal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/interspanish/ Listen: https://interspanish.buzzsprout.com/share Twitter: https://twitter.com/InterSpanishPod