Cesar Chavez Memorial

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KPIX local Emmy Award winning report on the funeral procession and memorial celebrations for civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, from Delano in Kern County, California (1993). Features interviews with farm workers, Jimmy Smits, Jesse Jackson and Pete Wilson, who all reflect on what the life and work of Chavez meant to them. Dolores Huerta states that: "Cesar's death has ensured the life of the United Farm Workers." Also includes scenes of over 35,000 mourners passing through the streets of Delano, pallbearers carrying Chavez's coffin and UFW members singing union songs.

Originally aired on
KPIX Eye on the Bay News
Date aired
c1993
Recording medium
3/4" U-matic video tape
4:32
Rights for this video belong to
CBS5 KPIX-TV
Type of material
legacy video tape
Identifier
Emmys 642 - Chavez
Views
14260

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