National Park Could Become Mexican-American Labor Leader Cesar Chavez's Ultimate Legacy Tony Castro - VOXXI
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The National Park Service is attempting to establish a Cesar Chavez national park, after migrant worker and activist Cesar Chavez. (Facebook)

In March of 1968, Cesar Chavez completed a 25-day fast in a tiny windowless room in Delano, Calif., that drew national attention to his movement and galvanized public support so as to dramatically change farm worker rights in the country.

Chavez ended the fast by receiving holy communion from U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy at an outdoor Mass attended by hundreds and establishing his place among Americans who have made a difference.

Today, that Delano compound is part of plans by the National Park Service to establish the Cesar Chavez National Historic Park at four sites in California that played important roles in the life of the late farm labor leader – including Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, also known as La Paz in Keene, Calif. — and another in Arizona.

Ultimately, the park could wind up becoming the farm labor organizer’s greatest legacy.

Chavez’s family says the recognition will stamp his name and Latino heritage on one of the country’s most cherished institutions, the national park system.

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