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About Cesar Chavez
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Ch%C3%A1vez

César Chávez

Chávez was hired and trained by Fred Ross as a community organizer in 1952 for the Community Service Organization (CSO), a Latino civil rights group. Chávez urged Mexican Americans to register and vote, and he traveled throughout California and made speeches in support of workers' rights. He later became CSO's national director in 1958.

Four years later, Chávez left the CSO. He co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Dolores Huerta. It was later called the United Farm Workers (UFW).
Cesar Chavez doesn't have much of a direct tie to Dallas or Texas but here is some information about Mr. Chavez according to the Handbook of Texas Online, which is managed by the Texas State Historical Commission.

http://www.tshaonline.org/

Cesar Chavez is a development off State Highway 107 about four miles east of Edinburg in south central Hidalgo County.
tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/hjc29.html

César Chávez Day, is Monday, March 31.
www.texasalmanac.com/holidays/

Manuel Acosta, painter, sculptor, and illustrator, who was born in Aldama, Chihuahua, Mexico but later lived in El Paso, TX, painted a portrait of Cesar Chavez for a 1969 Time magazine cover.
www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/AA/fac4.html

The Economy Furniture Company strike in 1968, Austin, TX, by Local 456 of the Upholsters International Union, garnered the support of United Farm Workers Union president César Chávez.
tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/EE/oee1.html
  1. On June 18, 1977, the Texas Farm Workers Union started a historic 1,600-mile journey from Austin to Washington to win more public support for agricultural workers and gain an audience with President James E. Carter. Carter, however, possibly at the behest of UFW president César Chávez, refused to meet with the marchers.
    tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/TT/oct3.html

  3. Visitors to the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio have included César Chávez, former presidential candidate Walter Mondale, and United States senator Joseph Montoya.
    tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/MM/lbm10.html

  5. The Community Cultural Arts Organization chief artist Anastacio "Tacho" Torres has recruited teams of student artists to complete works that depict an array of subjects: labor leader César Chávez, lowriders, the San Antonio missions, Tejano military and political heroes, and others.
    tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/kjc3.html

  7. Inspired by the courage of the farmworkers, by the California strikes led by Cesar Chavez, and by the Anglo-American youth revolt of the period, many Mexican-American university students came to participate in a crusade for social betterment that was known as the Chicano movement. They used Chicano to denote their rediscovered heritage, their youthful assertiveness, and their militant agenda.
    www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/pfc2_print.html

  9. Cesar Chavez recalled that by the 1940s, farmworkers found cars essential to moving quickly from job to job. Moreover, he noted, cars embodied social status:...
    www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/LL/pql3.html
Cesar Chavez has has a DISD elementary shcool, César Chávez Learning Center, named after him at the corner of Ross and Carroll.

http://www.dallasisd.org/schools/realtor_new.cfm?id_con=102