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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Cesar Chavez

1927 - 1993

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Cesar Chavez (born Cesario Estrada Chavez ; Spanish: [ˈtʃaβes]; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta, 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 leftist 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cesar Chavez has received more than 7,690,130 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Cesar Chavez is the 413th most popular social activist (down from 345th in 2019), the 5,910th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,030th in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Cesar Chavez ranks 413 out of 538Before him are Eugene V. Debs, Otto Warmbier, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Grey Owl, Frances Ames, and Abdul Sattar Edhi. After him are Raisa Aronova, Franca Viola, Giuseppe Impastato, Gabriela Silang, Leonard Peltier, and Josué de Castro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Cesar Chavez ranks 270Before him are Don Revie, Arturo Armando Molina, Laura Cardoso, Pasqualino De Santis, L. K. Advani, and Pierre Aubert. After him are Joachim Fuchsberger, Thorkild Hansen, Arthur Cohn, Alex Katz, Joan Feynman, and Estelle Parsons. Among people deceased in 1993, Cesar Chavez ranks 167Before him are Pino Puglisi, Ian Stuart Donaldson, André Pilette, Mario Genta, Eugen Suchoň, and Chris Hani. After him are J. R. D. Tata, John Frost, Norman Vincent Peale, Mohammad Natsir, Héctor De Bourgoing, and Axel von dem Bussche.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cesar Chavez ranks 5,910 out of 18,182Before him are Jacob Epstein (1880), Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926), Christy Turlington (1969), Milton Berle (1908), William Christian Bullitt Jr. (1891), and Robert Preston (1918). After him are Hunter Biden (1970), Elizabeth Gilbert (1969), Kurt Angle (1968), Laverne Cox (1984), Jeff Conaway (1950), and Frankie Avalon (1940).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Cesar Chavez ranks 60Before him are Anna Louise Strong (1885), Afeni Shakur (1947), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Eugene V. Debs (1855), Otto Warmbier (1994), and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826). After him are Leonard Peltier (1944), Lucy Stone (1818), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), Ruby Bridges (1954), William Luther Pierce (1933), and Medgar Evers (1925).