The artist who painted the Cesar Chavez mural was Emigdio Vazquez. He painted the mural as a tribute to Cesar Chavez, because Emigdio wanted to paint a heroic and poigmant mural taht would celebrate his life and all what Cesar did for the farm workers. On the mural Cesar Chavez is surrounded by some of his compatriots in the farm workers movement, like Dolores Huerta, Luis Valdez, Fred Ross, Sr. and many others. It also includes anonymous images of people who admired Cesar Chavez during his movement that demanded respect, dignity and social justice for them.

Cesar Chavez was a nationally recognized chicano leader and organizer of the civil rights movement, during the 1960's and 1970's. He was born in Arizona, grew up in a migrant family that liked harvesting fruits and vegetables. In 1950 he moved to San Jose where he became a volunteer organizer for the CSO ( Community Service Organizatio). Cesar Chavez spent many years trying to stablish the CSO chapter and addressing the needs of workers before becoming gene

ral director of CSO in California and Arizona in 1958. Cesar Chavez resigned and moved to Delano, California to organize his own farmworkers movement. In the Central Valley of California, he created the National Farm Workers Association ( now the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO). He received help from Dolores Huerta, Gilberto Padilla, Fred Ross Sr. and many others. In the mid 1960's, the union boycotted and striked many agricultural products with progressive succes. In 1975, the California Labor Relations Act was passed largely due to the work of Chavez and the UFWA. Cesar Chavez died in 1993.

The Chicano/a movement, influenced by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, grew out of alliances between farmworkers struggling to unionize in California and Tezas. A chicano artist produced this mural on memory of Cesar Chavez and his movements in favor of the civil rights of the farmworkers in California, Texas, and Arizona.

Under the leadership of nonviolence advocate Cesar Chavez, farmworkers launched a strike against California grape grower

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