Cesar Chavez's widow Helen Chavez dies in California at 88

[guno]

Another great fighter for justice has passed


Born in the town of Brawley in the California desert near the Mexico border, she met Cesar Chavez in the mid-1940s and married him in 1948, after he left the Navy.

In the early 1960s, the couple left a comfortable middle-class existence in East Los Angeles to organize farm workers in California's Central Valley. There, Chavez, along with Dolores Huerta, founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the UFW. His work would make him a deeply revered figure for Mexican-Americans and activists.

Cesar Chavez died in Arizona in 1993.

The couple had eight children, and Helen Chavez had to care for them alone for long stretches while he was traveling, his speaking and organizing skills in great demand. They lived in Delano, California, where she often did farm field work herself while he was gone, sometimes with her children working alongside her.

She also played a quiet but influential role within the union, according to her family.


Cesar Chavez's widow Helen Chavez dies in California at 88 :: WRAL.com

 

[2aguy]

Another great fighter for justice has passed


Born in the town of Brawley in the California desert near the Mexico border, she met Cesar Chavez in the mid-1940s and married him in 1948, after he left the Navy.

In the early 1960s, the couple left a comfortable middle-class existence in East Los Angeles to organize farm workers in California's Central Valley. There, Chavez, along with Dolores Huerta, founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the UFW. His work would make him a deeply revered figure for Mexican-Americans and activists.

Cesar Chavez died in Arizona in 1993.

The couple had eight children, and Helen Chavez had to care for them alone for long stretches while he was traveling, his speaking and organizing skills in great demand. They lived in Delano, California, where she often did farm field work herself while he was gone, sometimes with her children working alongside her.

She also played a quiet but influential role within the union, according to her family.


Cesar Chavez's widow Helen Chavez dies in California at 88 :: WRAL.com

Yes....do you remember when he would work along the border to send illegal Mexican immigrants back to mexico to keep them from lowering the wages of grape pickers....did you forget that?

From what I remember he was not gentle in his techniques.........he was essentially the first Donald Trump..........

Thanks for pointing this out....

 

[Asclepias]

RIP

 

[Asclepias]

Another great fighter for justice has passed


Born in the town of Brawley in the California desert near the Mexico border, she met Cesar Chavez in the mid-1940s and married him in 1948, after he left the Navy.

In the early 1960s, the couple left a comfortable middle-class existence in East Los Angeles to organize farm workers in California's Central Valley. There, Chavez, along with Dolores Huerta, founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the UFW. His work would make him a deeply revered figure for Mexican-Americans and activists.

Cesar Chavez died in Arizona in 1993.

The couple had eight children, and Helen Chavez had to care for them alone for long stretches while he was traveling, his speaking and organizing skills in great demand. They lived in Delano, California, where she often did farm field work herself while he was gone, sometimes with her children working alongside her.

She also played a quiet but influential role within the union, according to her family.


Cesar Chavez's widow Helen Chavez dies in California at 88 :: WRAL.com

Yes....do you remember when he would work along the border to send illegal Mexican immigrants back to mexico to keep them from lowering the wages of grape pickers....did you forget that?

From what I remember he was not gentle in his techniques.........he was essentially the first Donald Trump..........

Thanks for pointing this out....

What makes you think anyone forgot that?

 

[2aguy]

Ceasar Chavez.......he was Donald Trump before there was a Donald Trump....thanks for brining him up....except Cesar Chavez was too extreme.....Trump at least wants to let legal immigrants into the country....

Cesar Chavez: Anti-Immigration to His Union Core | The American Spectator

But there is a considerable twist to the story. In fact, Cesar Chavez believed ferociously in the border of the United States — because that border protected his union. So ferociously did he hold this view that the New York Times ran a story detailing an accusation that the union Chavez founded, the United Farm Workers, set up a 100 mile “wet line” to keep “wetbacks” and “illegals” — yes, all of those are Chavez’s words — out of the United States. So let’s go back in the time machine to the period when Chavez was rocketing to fame.

 

[mdk]

A classy women that preferred raising her family and helping others than seeking the spotlight.

 

[Asclepias]

Ceasar Chavez.......he was Donald Trump before there was a Donald Trump....thanks for brining him up....except Cesar Chavez was too extreme.....Trump at least wants to let legal immigrants into the country....

Cesar Chavez: Anti-Immigration to His Union Core | The American Spectator

But there is a considerable twist to the story. In fact, Cesar Chavez believed ferociously in the border of the United States — because that border protected his union. So ferociously did he hold this view that the New York Times ran a story detailing an accusation that the union Chavez founded, the United Farm Workers, set up a 100 mile “wet line” to keep “wetbacks” and “illegals” — yes, all of those are Chavez’s words — out of the United States. So let’s go back in the time machine to the period when Chavez was rocketing to fame.

Nope. First of all "wetback" was not a derogatory word back then and to this day Mexicans call themselves wetbacks. Second of all the only reason he had an issue with illegal immigrants is because he knew whites would use them as strike breakers. I guess you'll be telling us next about how MLK was a republican.

Confronting Cesar Chavez's Stance On Illegal Immigration

"As a union organizer, Chavez worried that that employers would recruit undocumented immigrants to break strikes. By the 1980s, however, Chavez had become a supporter of immigration reform and backed the 1986 bill signed by President Ronald Reagan that legalized the status of nearly 3 million people."

 

[Roudy]

We're gonna build a wall, the wall will be beautiful, and we're gonna make Guno pay for it.

 

[irosie91]

Another great fighter for justice has passed


Born in the town of Brawley in the California desert near the Mexico border, she met Cesar Chavez in the mid-1940s and married him in 1948, after he left the Navy.

In the early 1960s, the couple left a comfortable middle-class existence in East Los Angeles to organize farm workers in California's Central Valley. There, Chavez, along with Dolores Huerta, founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the UFW. His work would make him a deeply revered figure for Mexican-Americans and activists.

Cesar Chavez died in Arizona in 1993.

The couple had eight children, and Helen Chavez had to care for them alone for long stretches while he was traveling, his speaking and organizing skills in great demand. They lived in Delano, California, where she often did farm field work herself while he was gone, sometimes with her children working alongside her.

She also played a quiet but influential role within the union, according to her family.


Cesar Chavez's widow Helen Chavez dies in California at 88 :: WRAL.com

refresh my memory----was he the guy who organized the grape pickers in the 60s?

 

[Intolerant]

Another great fighter for justice has passed


Born in the town of Brawley in the California desert near the Mexico border, she met Cesar Chavez in the mid-1940s and married him in 1948, after he left the Navy.

In the early 1960s, the couple left a comfortable middle-class existence in East Los Angeles to organize farm workers in California's Central Valley. There, Chavez, along with Dolores Huerta, founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the UFW. His work would make him a deeply revered figure for Mexican-Americans and activists.

Cesar Chavez died in Arizona in 1993.

The couple had eight children, and Helen Chavez had to care for them alone for long stretches while he was traveling, his speaking and organizing skills in great demand. They lived in Delano, California, where she often did farm field work herself while he was gone, sometimes with her children working alongside her.

She also played a quiet but influential role within the union, according to her family.


Cesar Chavez's widow Helen Chavez dies in California at 88 :: WRAL.com[/QUOTE I take it you will be attending the funeral comrade.

 

[dannyboys]

Another great fighter for justice has passed


Born in the town of Brawley in the California desert near the Mexico border, she met Cesar Chavez in the mid-1940s and married him in 1948, after he left the Navy.

In the early 1960s, the couple left a comfortable middle-class existence in East Los Angeles to organize farm workers in California's Central Valley. There, Chavez, along with Dolores Huerta, founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the UFW. His work would make him a deeply revered figure for Mexican-Americans and activists.

Cesar Chavez died in Arizona in 1993.

The couple had eight children, and Helen Chavez had to care for them alone for long stretches while he was traveling, his speaking and organizing skills in great demand. They lived in Delano, California, where she often did farm field work herself while he was gone, sometimes with her children working alongside her.

She also played a quiet but influential role within the union, according to her family.


Cesar Chavez's widow Helen Chavez dies in California at 88 :: WRAL.com

 

[Katzndogz]

Another commie gone. Good riddance.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Another commie gone. Good riddance.

you cant be far behind.....how does that feel?.....knowing every day you get up is another bonus day for you.....

 

[Snouter]

...she often did farm field work herself while he was gone, sometimes with her children working alongside her.

So she was kind of like a slave of Chavez?\.

 

[Katzndogz]

Another commie gone. Good riddance.

you cant be far behind.....how does that feel?.....knowing every day you get up is another bonus day for you.....

You can say the same about every one on the planet.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Another commie gone. Good riddance.

you cant be far behind.....how does that feel?.....knowing every day you get up is another bonus day for you.....

You can say the same about every one on the planet.

yea but your an old fart.....there is a difference....