By Robert Chao Romero, originally posted on the Jesus 4 Revolutionaries website

César Chávez was the preeminent leader, voice, and public face of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s.  Chávez is to Latinas/os what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to the African American community.  Moreover, as the posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Aztec Eagle,[1] and a U.S. postage stamp in his honor, Chávez has been called the world’s most famous Latino.[2]  Together with Dolores Huerta and Filipino organizers Larry Itliong and Phillip VeraCruz, Chávez founded the United Farmworkers of America (UFW).  The UFW fought for increased wages and better working conditions for exploited California farmworkers and rose to national attention through the famous Delano grape strike and international boycotts of 1965-1970. Continue reading “Faith in the Life of César Chávez: Part I, “Abuelita Theology”” →