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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cesar Chavez has received more than 8,377,916 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Cesar Chavez is the 440th most popular social activist (down from 413th in 2019), the 5,551st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,898th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Social Activist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Cesar Chavez ranks 440 out of 840. Before him are Lester R. Brown, Anna Louise Strong, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Sugathakumari, and Pjetër Arbnori. After him are Romas Kalanta, Grace Sherwood, Lee Radziwill, Estela de Carlotto, Donald Watson, and Henriette Herz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Cesar Chavez ranks 260. Before him are Roy Cohn, Susan Cabot, Peter Dickinson, Mathé Altéry, Martin Špegelj, and László Paskai. After him are Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Joan Feynman, Elisabeth Söderström, Nikola Kljusev, Herbert W. Franke, and Carmen Basilio. Among people deceased in 1993, Cesar Chavez ranks 167. Before him are Fred Gwynne, J. R. D. Tata, Robert Jacobsen, Pino Puglisi, Ihor Turchyn, and Carlos Marcello. After him are Masuji Ibuse, Béla Sárosi, Jiří Hájek, Kamal Hassan Ali, Ian Stuart Donaldson, and Eugen Suchoň.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cesar Chavez ranks 5,551 out of 20,380. Before him are Bob Brookmeyer (1929), Robert Byrd (1917), Al Kooper (1944), Strom Thurmond (1902), Mark Forest (1933), and Mike Wallace (1918). After him are Ida B. Wells (1862), Glenn Danzig (1955), J. D. Tippit (1924), James Eckhouse (1955), Clyde Cowan (1919), and James Crafts (1839).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Cesar Chavez ranks 58. Before him are Eugene V. Debs (1855), Afeni Shakur (1947), Leonard Peltier (1944), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Lester R. Brown (1934), and Anna Louise Strong (1885). After him are Grace Sherwood (1660), Lee Radziwill (1933), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Lucy Stone (1818), Medgar Evers (1925), and Phyllis Schlafly (1924).

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