Word: cesar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AFTER A LONG boycott campaign, Cesar Chavez finally got enough public support to force many growers to sign contracts with his United Farm Workers Union (UFW) in 1970. The growers signed even though Chavez did not have the support of the workers and even though he had misrepresented the facts to gain public support...
...knew Dolores Mendoza because I had debated her many times on television during that campaign. I was always puzzled how she appeared in many states throughout this country speaking out against Cesar Chavez and the Union, on her allegedly "small income" as a farm worker...
...many years, Cesar Chavez has asked consumers to boycott grapes and lettuce, and more recently Gallo wine, to help farmworkers unionize. Harvard students and much of the entire Boston community have always given substantial support to the boycott effort. The success of the drive against Harvard Pro is yet another example of this support...
...unusual candidate, points out TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan. A tense and introverted intellectual, Brown spent four years in a Jesuit seminary ("It concentrates your thinking," he says with a half-smile) and cracks jokes in Latin for his press entourage. He has been a follower of Eugene McCarthy and Cesar Chavez, made money as a corporation lawyer, studied Gandhi and Thomas a Kempis, dated Liv Ullmann and Natalie Wood. He is a public man with private layers that are concealed from even his closest friends...
...with politics. He started as a virtual dilettante, making a brief tour of Mississippi in 1962 to learn something about race problems. In 1968, he took part in demonstrations for ending the Viet Nam War, his main cause. In 1969, Brown briefly trudged California's dusty roads with Cesar Chavez, the Mexican-American who was leading his crusade to organize migrant farm workers...