Cesar Chavez Day is March 31st

Cesar Chavez is remembered on March 31st for his unrelenting efforts to improve the lives of farmworkers by advocating for social justice and civil rights. Cesario Estrada Chavez was a manual laborer from Yuma, Arizona, his family was very poor.  He got involved with a civil rights group known as the Community Service Organization. There he helped mostly minority laborers register to vote.  He then co-founded the the NFWA and El Malcriado, a newspaper published in both English and Spanish that provided a place for migrant workers to talk about working conditions, and helped organize the farmworkers to work together when dealing with their union, who were predominantly Mexican American and Filipino American.  Chavez went on to organize strikes to demand better working conditions.  Cesar Chavez dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of farm workers and by helping them get better housing and education for their families.

Cesar Chavez died in 1993.