SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Cesar Chavez

1927 - 1993

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Cesario Estrada Chavez (; Spanish: [ˈtʃaβes]; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and lesser known Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union. Ideologically, his worldview combined left-wing politics with Catholic social teachings. Born in Yuma, Arizona, to a Mexican-American family, Chavez began his working life as a manual laborer before spending two years in the U.S. Navy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cesar Chavez is the 146th most popular social activist (up from 441st in 2019), the 1,539th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,550th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Cesar Chavez ranks 146 out of 840. Before him are Mordechai Anielewicz, Yelena Bonner, Marianne Bachmeier, Ishikawa Goemon, Alfred Naujocks, and Abbé Pierre. After him are Sergey Nechayev, George Stinney, Vlado Chernozemski, Yiannis Ritsos, Beppe Grillo, and Ilya Ulyanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Cesar Chavez ranks 71. Before him are George C. Scott, Jacques Mayol, Mary Higgins Clark, Megumu Tamura, Maurice Ronet, and Phil Hill. After him are Don Shirley, Enzo Bearzot, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Herbert Blomstedt, Juan Almeida Bosque, and Hélène Langevin-Joliot. Among people deceased in 1993, Cesar Chavez ranks 39. Before him are Salah Jadid, Vincent Price, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Severo Ochoa, Arthur Ashe, and Jean Negulesco. After him are W. Edwards Deming, Pat Nixon, Masahiko Kimura, Stewart Granger, Horia Sima, and Muhammad Khan Junejo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cesar Chavez ranks 1,539 out of 20,380. Before him are Kelly LeBrock (1960), Etta James (1938), George Stigler (1911), Jackie Robinson (1919), Barbara Bel Geddes (1922), and Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861). After him are Edith Wharton (1862), Gary Gilmore (1940), Henry Way Kendall (1926), Dennis Rader (1945), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), and Shia LaBeouf (1986).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Cesar Chavez ranks 21. Before him are John Brown (1800), Betty Ford (1918), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), William Luther Pierce (1933), Susan B. Anthony (1820), and Bugsy Siegel (1906). After him are George Stinney (1929), Frances Willard (1839), David Lane (1938), Frederick Douglass (1818), Billy Milligan (1955), and Sojourner Truth (1797).

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