March 31 Is Cesar Chavez Day
Each year, people across America honor Cesar Chavez on the anniversary of his birth. "He was a street-corner tough who now claims as his models Emiliano Zapata, Gandhi, Nehru and Martin Luther King," TIME explained in a 1969 cover story about his work. "He tells his people: 'We make a solemn promise: to enjoy our rightful part of the riches of this land, to throw off the yoke of being considered as agricultural implements or slaves. We are free men and we demand justice.'"
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