President Joe Biden on civil and labor rights leader Cesar Chavez: “America has no finer role model.”
“Chavez instilled in our nation the principle that ‘Our ambition must be broad enough to include the needs of others, for their sakes and for our own,’” Biden said in the video, adding that America has no finer role model than Chavez, while displaying a bust of the labor activist positioned behind his desk in the Oval Office.declaring March 31 as a federal commemorative holiday for him in 2014, former President Barack Obama called Chavez “one of America’s greatest champions for social justice.
1966: Rev. Eugene J. Boyle, chairman of the San Francisco Archdiocesan Commission on Social Justice, left, joined protesters in Farmersville, California, on a 300-mile journey to Sacramento on March 21. Leaning on cane is United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez. 1969: United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez, carrying a sign calling for a boycott of California table grapes, leads about 400 people picketing a Safeway supermarket in Seattle on December 19.
1972: Cesar Chavez, suffering from the effects of a 20-day hunger strike, as he’s wheeled form his Phoenix, Arizona, barrio headquarters to be taken to a hospital on May 31. 1979: Cesar Chavez talks to striking Salinas Valley farm workers during a large rally in Salinas on March 7. 1989: United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez speaks at a news conference on the steps at City Hall in New York City, Thursday, June 29. Chavez announced that several major New York City supermarket chains will remove California table grapes from their shelves. Standing behind Chavez is Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins and at right is Courtney Kennedy-Ruhe, daughter of late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
1993: Mourners wave the United Farm Workers flag at the start of an all-night candlelight vigil for leader Cesar Chavez at the UFW compound in Delano, California, on Wednesday, April 28. 1994: Washington Post cartoonist Herbert Block, left, applauds as President Bill Clinton awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the widow of Cesar Chavez, Helen Chavez, during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Monday, August 8. Clinton awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to nine Americans, including Block and Chavez, who founded the United Farm Workers union.
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