A hail to Cesar Chavez: during his lifetime, Cesar Chavez led a national movement to better the lives of migrant farm workers; today, legislators and others consider ways to honor the man who helped lead that struggle for more than three decades.

National Parks | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

In 1965, thousands of migrant farm workers earned 90 cents an hour--35 cents less than minimum wage--for the arduous and backbreaking work of putting food on the nation's dining tables. Hundreds of thousands of workers, primarily Filipino, Mexican, or Chicano men, women, and children, followed the growing season to pick grapes, lettuce, and other fruits and vegetables for wealthy agribusinesses throughout California. They lived in mosquito-infested shacks that had no indoor plumbing or kitchen facilities and paid $2 per day for the privilege. They earned an extra ten cents ...

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