The Crusades of Cesar Chavez (92 page)

Chavez and Robert F. Kennedy talk in the parking lot during a recess in the March 16, 1966, Senate hearing in Delano, where the two men first formed a bond. (Courtesy of Wendy Brooks)

Chavez shows the route of the three-hundred-mile pilgrimage to Sacramento that the farmworkers began the day after Kennedy’s visit to Delano. (Jon Lewis/farmworkermovement.us)

Chavez walked in pain for much of the march to Sacramento; he said penance was the most important part of the
peregrinacíon
for him. (Jon Lewis/farmworkermovement.us)

Farmworkers celebrate their victory over the Teamsters when the results of the DiGiorgio election are announced in Filipino Hall on September 1, 1966. (Jon Lewis/farmworkermovement.us)

Luis Valdez (center) performs with the Teatro Campesino, the farmworker theater troupe he founded on the picket lines. (John Kouns/Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

Chavez and Jim Drake enjoy the Teatro Campesino skit at a Friday night meeting. (John Kouns/farmworkermovement.us)

LeRoy Chatfield speaks at a Friday night meeting as Larry Itliong looks on. (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

Gilbert Padilla, one of Chavez’s early and key lieutenants, talks to a worker in the union office. (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

Jerry Cohen confronts a deputy sheriff in the Imperial Valley. (Cris Sanchez)

Chavez breaks his twenty-five-day fast with Senator Robert F. Kennedy on March 10, 1968, as Helen Chavez looks on. (Richard Darby/Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

Jessica Govea, at left, leads a boycott march through Toronto in December 1968. (Courtesy of the Govea family)

Chavez reaches for the bar installed above his bed in late 1968 when his back problems became so severe he could not sit up without assistance; he hung a rosary and a mezuzah on the metal bar. (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

Dr. Janet Travell examines Chavez in March 1969 in a Delano pool that was specially heated to ease his back pain; Marion Moses looks on. (Courtesy of Marion Moses)