A portion of artist Melchor Ramirez's mural honoring Chicano activist Cesar Chavez in a small park bearing Chavez's name in Tucson, Arizona.

Title: A portion of artist Melchor Ramirez's mural honoring Chicano activist Cesar Chavez in a small park bearing Chavez's name in Tucson, Arizona.
Rights: The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Public Domain.
Creator: Highsmith, Carol M. (1946-)
Date: 2018 C.E.
Description: This image displays a portion of a mural created by the artist Melchor Ramirez in Tucson, Arizona. The mural depicts the leader of the United Farm Workers organization, Cesar Chavez, in traditional Aztec clothing and draws upon iconography from Aztec art to emphasize Chavez’s Mexican heritage. Seated next to Chavez is the Aztec goddess of fertility and harvest, Tonantzin, which further alludes to Chavez’s political ties to migrant farm workers and the UFW.
Format: Digital born photograph.
Publisher: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Contributor: Melissa Valenzuela
Identifier: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LC-DIG-highsm- 49380 (ONLINE) [P&P]
Subject: Cesar Chavez; United Farm Workers Movement; art; labor history; political activism; political art; Arizona; Chicano Movement; Chicano activism.
Source: Jpg file. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. 11/3/2021. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018663098/