Remembering Cesar Chavez

A rotary phone with the black eagle symbol of the United Farm Workers sits on Chavez’s desk in his office at the National Chavez Center in Keene, Calif.
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Anne Dove, left, Suzanne Brinkley, Martha Crusius and MaLisa Martin, all with the National Park ServiceÂ’s Cesar Chavez Special Resources Study, walk the grounds of 40 Acres, the United Farm Workers complex in Delano, Calif., where farm historic contracts were signed and where the funeral for Cesar Chavez was held in 1993. The site is being considered for National Park Service protection.
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The 187-acre Nuestra Señora Reina de La Paz retreat in the community of Keene, about 75 miles southeast of Delano, where the United Farm Workers held meetings and large gatherings, and where Chavez was buried in a rose garden in 1993. It’s also home to the National Chavez Center.
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Marc Grossman, Cesar Chavez’s longtime spokesman and personal aide, leads a tour at the Agbayani Retirement Village on the grounds of 40 Acres, where Chavez fasted for 36 days in 1988 to protest the use of agricultural pesticides.
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Suzanne Brinkley, left, Anne Dove, Martha Crusius and MaLisa Martin, all with the National Park Service’s Cesar Chavez Special Resources Study, walk inside the the Roy Reuther administration building on the grounds of 40 Acres, the United Farm Workers’ headquarters from 1969 to 1971.
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A book about Mahatma Gandhi is one of the many lining the shelves inside Chavez’s office at the National Chavez Center at La Paz in Keene, Calif. At far right is a painting of the farm activist, who had all of Gandhi’s writings.
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A photograph taken in the 1970s of Chavez and his mother, Juana, is displayed in the activist’s office at the National Chavez Center.
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Adriena Chapa, 8, visits friend Monika Popoy, who lives at the Agbayani Retirement Village on the grounds of 40 Acres. Cesar Chavez helped initiate the building of this retirement home for Filipino American farmworkers in 1974.
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Chavez’s grave site at the National Chavez Center. He died in 1993.
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