Politics & Government
State, County Offices Closed in Observance of Cesar Chavez Day
Chavez is remembered for leading a movement to ensure adequate working conditions for farm workers.
All California state and San Diego County offices are closed Friday in observance of César Chávez Day. In addition, county libraries are closed.
The state of California celebrates Chávez each year on or around his birthday, March 31, to honor the labor activist who founded what would be known as the United Farm Workers. Perhaps most notably remembered for organizing farmworkers, the civil rights leader is credited with showing the nation, “Si, se puede”—“Yes, it can be done.”
Chavez would have been 85 this year.
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