What is the significance of the chosen symbol? Create a contemporary background for the portrait. What would Chávez advocate today and where would he go to protest injustice? (American farms, Wall Street, public schools, the Capitol?) After pasting Chávez’s image onto the new background, discuss its effect on the portrait.

The film presents a portrait of Cesar Chavez, leader… Contributor: Independent Television Service - Telles, Ray - Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) - Tejada-Flores, Rick - Paradigm Productions

2021年3月25日 · “Rez Ball,” now streaming on Netflix, centers around a high school basketball team rich in Native American heritage, The UC Merced Library holds intimate portraits of labor leader, community organizer, businessman and Latino American civil rights activist César Chávez.

Cesar Chavez, half-length portrait, facing left. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/94504602/>.

The black-and-white portrait of Chávez shows him in the 1950s or 60s. He wears a straw hat and striped shirt, and has a shovel balanced across the back of his shoulders. He is looking to his left toward a distant scene.

Encouraged by victories of the black civil rights movement, labor organizer Cesar Chavez began in the early 1960s to protest the unfair treatment of farm workers in California and the Southwest. In 1962 he and Dolores Huerta founded the National Farm Workers Association.

Activist César Chávez, portrait, 1987 Date Created and/or Issued 1987 Publication Information Los Angeles Times Contributing Institution UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library Collection Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives Rights Information US

Portrait of the American labor leader and civil rights activist, César Estrada Chávez (1927-1993), speaking at the Democratic Convention in New York City, July 14, 1976. Photo by Warren K Leffler. RM R00H8G – Statue of Cesar E. Chavez, Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Plaza, Sacramento, California.

A towering figure in labor rights, Cesar Chavez brought the exploitation of agricultural workers into national focus as the president of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union. Chavez understood firsthand the vulnerability of migrant workers.

Chavez' image appears out of a scene of a protesting crowd of people holding signs supporting the rights of farm workers. Along the left side is a row of bodies beneath sheets next to rows of skulls made out of people huddled together. The horizon above features mountains in the distance and farmland to the right.