FILM & PROGRAM ADMISSION: FREE
The film: "The Fight in the Fields, Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker's Struggle" will be shown in the Cesar Chavez Collection, First Floor Lobby, Main Library from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. on Thursday March 31, 2005.
Cesar E. Chavez was the founder and President of the United Farm Workers union until his death in 1993. In 1994, Michigan State University MEChA members a hunger strike to force then President McPherson and MSU to honor UFW boycotts. What resulted was a negotiated agreement to honor Cesar E. Chavez with a library collection in the Main Libraries. A speaker's program will include MEChA strike alumni and Professor Jerry Garcia speaking on " Cesar Chavez in the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest". 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Contact person:
Diana Rivera
Cesar E. Chavez Collection/Coleccion Cesar E. Chavez
Chicana/o Studies - Ethnic Studies Librarian
Michigan State University Libraries
100 Library
East Lansing, MI 48824
office: 517-432-6123 ext. 252
fax : 517-353-1975
created 3.28.2005
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