{"id":1106,"date":"2022-04-20T15:07:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2022-04-20T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:07:41","slug":"cesar-chavez-migrant-farmworkers-strike-and-boycott-exhibit-in-adrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/20\/cesar-chavez-migrant-farmworkers-strike-and-boycott-exhibit-in-adrian\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez: migrant farmworkers \u2018Strike and Boycott Exhibit\u2019 in Adrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1107 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"180\" \/>ADRIAN, MI:<em>\u00a0The Lenawee Historical Museum<\/em>\u00a0announces the opening of a new special exhibit focusing on\u00a0<em>C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and the migrant farmworkers\u2019 strike and boycott of the 1960s and 1970s<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Michigan legislature declared March 31 as\u00a0<em>C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Day\u00a0<\/em>in 2004 to recognize his contribution to the nation by organizing farmworkers to campaign for safe and fair working conditions, reasonable wages, descent housing, and outlawing child labor. In 2014, President Obama declared the day as a federal commemorative holiday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Adrian Friends of the Farm Workers (AFFW),<\/em>\u00a0organized in 1969 to provide local support to the\u00a0<em>United Farm Workers union (UFW)<\/em>\u00a0and C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s nationwide campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr<em>.\u00a0<\/em>Ch\u00e1vez visited Adrian several times during the 1970s to meet with and encourage the efforts to boycott the sale of products, primarily grapes and lettuce, picked by the non-union, mostly Mexican, migrant work force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibit includes items from the personal collection of\u00a0<em>Lupe De Le\u00f3n\u00a0<\/em>who, along with his wife, participated in the strike. In addition to a large AFFW banner signed by C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and other leaders of the national movement, the exhibit includes original posters, newspaper articles, letters, buttons, bumper stickers, and other items related to the strike and boycott.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The museum is located in the historic Carnegie Library building at 110 E. Church Street in Adrian, Michigan.\u00a0The\u00a0museum\u00a0free\u00a0and\u00a0open\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0public on Fridays and Saturdays from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADRIAN, MI:\u00a0The Lenawee Historical Museum\u00a0announces the opening of a new special exhibit focusing on\u00a0C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and the migrant farmworkers\u2019 strike and boycott of the 1960s and 1970s. The Michigan legislature declared March 31 as\u00a0C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Day\u00a0in 2004 to recognize his contribution to the nation by organizing farmworkers to campaign for safe and fair working<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_rtcl_gb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[54],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-michigan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4.jpg",261,180,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4.jpg",261,180,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4.jpg",261,180,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4.jpg",261,180,false],"large":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4.jpg",261,180,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4.jpg",261,180,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4.jpg",261,180,false],"rtcl-gallery":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4.jpg",261,180,false],"rtcl-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4.jpg",261,180,false],"rtcl-gallery-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4-150x105.jpg",150,105,true],"psacp-medium":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4.jpg",261,180,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chavez-museum-p-4-45x45.jpg",45,45,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"LaPrensa Newspaper","author_link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/author\/laprensa\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/category\/articles\/michigan\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Michigan<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"ADRIAN, MI:\u00a0The Lenawee Historical Museum\u00a0announces the opening of a new special exhibit focusing on\u00a0C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and the migrant farmworkers\u2019 strike and boycott of the 1960s and 1970s. 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