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Cesar Chavez Day is celebrated on March 31, annually. It is also Cesar Chavez’s birthday. In 2014, President Barack Obama declared Cesar Chavez Day a national holiday. Chavez was a child of a migrant farm family, a former Navy serviceperson, and cofounder of the National Farm Workers’ Association (now the United Farm Workers). In this new role, Chavez became the best-known Latino American civil rights activist. Leading the struggle for better rights for farm workers, his steady but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers’ struggle a moral cause with wide support.
During this webinar, Chavez was highlighted as a civil rights champion and Community Action leaders showcased local efforts aimed to build pathways to social and economic wellbeing for farmworker families.