César Chávez’s Union Jacket
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Title
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César Chávez’s Union Jacket
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Rights
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Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. Public Domain.
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Creator
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Chavez, Helen (1928-2016)
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Date
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1993 C.E.
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Description
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This jacket was worn by Cesar Chavez who founded the United Farm Workers movement in 1962. Chavez and his associates dedicated their lives to improving the working and living conditions of Hispanic migrant farm workers in the United States. The United Farm Workers utilized boycotts and strikes, popular methods of political resistance in the 1960s, to communicate their demands to individual farmers and the American public. Cesar Chavez also drew on other tactics used by his political inspirations, such as Mahatma Gandhi, and partook in hunger strikes to encourage farmers to listen to the pleas of the farmworkers. Chavez remained politically active up to his death in 1993. Former President Bill Clinton posthumously awarded Cesar Chavez the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
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Format
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Nylon and Polyester Jacket. 28 in x 23 in; 71.12 cm x 58.42 cm
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Publisher
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Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
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Contributor
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Melissa Valenzuela
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Identifier
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Smithsonian National Museum of American History. 1993.0409.
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Subject
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Cesar Chavez; United Farm Workers; farmworker movement; civil rights; labor rights; agriculture.
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Source
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Jpg file. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History. 11/3/2021. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_694879.
