Prologue : the car pool -- The founding. The territory -- The work itself -- Childhood as destiny -- The lay Catholic activist -- The alchemist -- The organizer in Oxnard -- Climbing the fence -- A ...

When my family migrated from New México to California in the late 1960s, César E. Chávez was in the midst of his crusade to gain labor rights for the farm workers who made fortunes for grape growers ...

Share By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read Matt Garcia is the author of From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement . Evan Kleiman host 'Good ...

Birth of a movement -- Capitalism in reverse -- Workers of the world, unite! -- Stuck in the middle -- A bitter harvest -- Busy dying -- Rotting from the inside out -- Some were more equal than others ...

Since 2006, the annual May Day parade has traditionally marched through downtown Yakima. But in 2016, the march took a much longer route to drive home the point of workers’ and immigrants’ rights.

Beloved activist Maria Rifo, the modest matriarch of Santa Rosa's Latino community whose friendship with Cesar Chavez sparked four decades of social justice outreach, has died at 98. Chavez's ...

Lawmakers want President Obama to award Fred Ross Sr. a Medal of Freedom. March 19, 2013— -- In 1952, Fred Ross Sr. was combing the Latino barrios of San Jose, California, for places to hold ...

After 10 years on the facade of a building downtown, the nine-foot statues of civil rights icons Cesar Chavez and Dolores ...