César Chávez

Called "one of the heroic figures of our time" by Robert Kennedy in 1968, César Chávez was a grass-roots labor organizer who rose from the ranks of California migrant workers to form and lead the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). Now called the United Farm Workers, AFL-CI0, it was the first effective agricultural union in the United States. In 1965, Chávez led the NFWA into a strike against grape growers in Delano, California. The strike failed but a nationwide boycott of table grapes followed, successfully forcing union contracts with growers in the Imperial, Coachella, and San Joaquin valleys in 1970. Now a film biography of Chávez has come out

Selfless and deeply religious, Chávez worked tirelessly for years to bring...