Tagged: Cesar Chavez

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5:27 pm
Mon October 8, 2012

Cesar Chavez Remembered In The Place Of His Birth, Death

Credit Cesar Chavez Foundation
Cesar Chavez and his sister were born in San Luis, Ariz.

On Monday, President Barack Obama designated the Cesar Chavez home in Keene, Calif. as a national monument. The labor and civil rights leader was born in Yuma County, Ariz.

The farm town of San Luis, just south of Yuma, remembers Cesar Chavez well -- with schools, streets and a cultural center named after him.

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