Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning is an official American holiday that is celebrated in the United States of America annually on March 31 . Celebrations are held in eight different states of the USA , including: Arizona , Colorado , California , Texas and others [1] .
| "Cesar Chavez Day" | |
|---|---|
 Cesar Estrada Chavez | |
| Type of | official holiday |
| Otherwise | Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning |
| Is celebrated | USA |
| date | March 31 |
This holiday is dedicated to the memory of the fighter for social rights of workers and migrants Cesar Chavez , an American who grew up in a family of immigrants from Mexico , who was born on March 31 near the city of Huma (Arizona) in 1927 (died April 23, 1993 ). This man became an American hero and a symbol of the struggle for the social and civil rights of Mexican agricultural migrant workers. The holiday is the first in US history in honor of American human rights defenders of Mexican descent.
Of the eight US states where this holiday is celebrated, in seven, “Cesar Chavez Day” is not a non-working day if, depending on the year, does not fall on a day off. In California, in 2000, the legislature approved a bill to establish March 31 as the official holiday, Cesar Chavez Day, and declared the day a day off [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Cesar Chavez Day Archived October 21, 2010 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Cesar Chavez Day - March 31. The history and features of the holiday in the project holidays 2010
Links
- Media files related to Cesar Chavez at Wikimedia Commons
- César Chávez
- Cesar Chavez’s Day in the “Holidays Calendar” .