The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, whose fight to ... awarded by President Bill Clinton the Medal of Freedom.

In 1962, Chavez, along with activist Dolores Huerta ... former President Clinton posthumously awarded Chávez the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the LA County Library website says.

Cesar Estrada Chavez was born in Yuma ... The following year his wife, Helen, accepted a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for her husband's years of nonviolent activism on behalf of ...

Cesar Estrada Chavez was born in Yuma ... The following year his wife, Helen, accepted a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for her husband's years of nonviolent activism on behalf of ...