Fight in the Fields http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/cesarchavez.html PBS Essay on the Farm Workers struggle. Cesario Estrada Chavez, the most important Latino leader in U.S. history, was born in Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927 to Librado Chavez and Juana Chavez. He was the second of 5 children.
