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Last Updated on September 22, 2025
Honor Cesar Chavez by watching a short documentary that showcases his activism for farm workers and beyond.
Spend 22 minutes watching this neat film about Farm Worker activist Cesar Chavez. I learned that in addition to supporting his own cause, he was an activist for women, gays, and animals. He believed that everyone deserved respect.
Cesar Chavez Respect For All
From the Teach With Movies Learning Guide:
Cesar Chavez, remembered chiefly as head of the United Farm Workers (“UFW”), had more than one dimension. In fact, he was a moral pioneer, adopting progressive positions long before they became popular. He did this in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s by relentlessly extending the ethical principle of “respect,” not only for farmworkers but also for:
- Women — by supporting them in the workplace; Chavez encouraged women to rise to positions of responsibility and leadership in the UFW; he also demanded that there be no sexual harassment of female farmworkers; the movement against sexual harassment of women in the workplace came into national prominence in 2017 with the #metoo movement; Cesar Chavez was protesting sexual harassment of female farmworkers back in the 1970s;
- Gays and lesbians — in the 1970s, Chavez was the first major civil rights leader to support gays and lesbians; at that time, and for many decades, this was not a popular position; it is still controversial among some people; and
- Animals — becoming a vegetarian and then a vegan, actively promoting respect and compassion for animals back in the 1980s and early 1990s when animal rights and veganism were not part of the national conversation.
Also, read about Cesar Chavez’s partner, Dolores Huerta.
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