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- <title>
- May 03, 1993: Died:Cesar Chavez
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 25
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- <p> DIED. Cesar Chavez, 66, famed labor organizer; in San Luis,
- Arizona. Chavez became a national figure as president of the
- United Farm Workers in the late 1960s, when he began unionizing
- poorly paid Mexican migrant workers to raise them out of
- squalid working and living conditions. His successful boycotts
- against various grape growers and the producers of iceberg
- lettuce were widely accepted by Americans during the 1970s.
- Chavez grew up in a migrant family that lived in shacks,
- neglected his education and rested its livelihood on fluctuating
- markets in fruits and vegetables.
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- </body>
- </article>
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