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Article: Champion of farm workers dies. (Cesar Chavez)(News)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- May 12, 1993
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"An era has passed," said Joan Brown Campbell, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, in responding to news reports that Cesar Chavez, 66, died in his sleep April 23 in San Lnis, Arizona, where he was visiting on union business. Chavez, founder and leader of the United Farm Workers, apparently had not been ill. "We've lost a friend and colleague who instilled in countless farm workers a spirit of independence and who, in the process, called the churches to justice in a new way," Campbel! declared.
Chavez, who combined the passion for justice of his Roman Catholic religious heritage, the militant nonviolence of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., ...