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| Announces a third grape boycott, Grapes of Wrath to protest the use of pesticides on fruit and poisoning of farm labor workers.
Promote the UFW movie The Wrath of Grapes, about the dangers of pesticides in food for farm workers and consumers.
Undertakes the Fast for Life for 36 days to call attention to the health hazards of using pesticides.
Honored with the Aztec Eagle, the highest award for preserving Mexican heritage.
Leads over 10,000 workers in marches through the Coachella and San Joaquin valleys to protest the working conditions.
Cesar Estrada Chavez dies in Yuma, Arizona, after fasting several days.
40,000 mourners follow the casket three miles from Delano to Forty Acres. Laid to rest in Keene.
Arturo Rodriguez succeeds as union president.
President Bill Clinton posthumously awards the U S Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, to Cesar Chavez.
Arturo Rodriguez leads a march retracing Cesar's historic 1966 Pilgrimage from Delano to Sacramento.
New agreements with growers for farm workers in the rose, strawberry, wine grape, mushroom, lettuce and vegetable plants in California, Florida and Washington state.
California establishes an official state holiday to honor Chavez. César Chávez Day now also is a state holiday in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Michigan, Texas, and Wisconsin.
The United States Postal Service issues the first class 37 cents Cesar Chavez commemorative stamp, designed by Roberto Rodriguez inspired on a photograph by Bob Fitch in 1976.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inducts Cesar into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum.
| Bibliography of the Cesar Chavez Bio 4 Biggers, J (2008). And Justice For All. The Story Of CC.
Anaya, R and Enriquez, G (2004). Elegy on the Death of César Chávez.
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