凯萨查维斯基金会

2023年3月31日

海伦Fabela查韦斯,凯萨查维斯的妻子,发挥了至关重要的作用在建立农场工人的权利映像Id: 535245年加利福尼亚(KCRA)——海伦Fabela查韦斯,塞萨尔•查韦斯民权活动家,他的妻子并不喜欢聚光灯下,但发挥了关键作用建立农场工人权利在加州。是她的丈夫被领导游行,但塞萨尔和海伦的孩子说塞萨尔不能够完成他所做的没有他的妻子。“我母亲从来没有站在我的父亲,她在他身边,有时前面,”查韦斯说。”她从一开始就在那里。组织农场工人的决定并不是一个决定,我的父亲,我的母亲是这些决定的一部分。“在基恩的凯萨查维斯国家纪念碑,海伦可以看到周围的财产,从她的安息之地旁边塞萨尔,别墅拉巴斯,致力于她的2010年。他们的儿子保罗,现在凯萨查维斯基金会的主席,说他的母亲是他父亲的最大支持者。”她谈到了农场工人遭受的屈辱生活,并继续受苦,她有一个分数来解决,还有我的父亲,试图让事情吧,”保罗说。这是海伦的强烈决心推动塞萨尔留下他们的中产阶级生活开始运动。八的母亲回到在田里干活,财政支持家庭,虽然他组织工会。 “She would get up early and make lunch for us kids, and she would take off and go picket the fields for a while. She’d come back and get us off to school, and she ran the farm worker’s credit union,” Paul said. Helen’s perseverance kept Cesar going. “I remember years ago looking at one of my dad’s journals,” Paul said. “In the journal, it says, ‘I’m really tired, I don’t know how much longer I can put my family through this.’ The next journal, the following day, he says, ‘I spoke to Helen. I’m ready to go.’ That was my mom.” After Cesar’s death, Helen remained committed to the movement until she passed in 2016. It’s that dedication that motivates Paul to continue the work his parents started together. “As we go about doing this work and people remember my father’s life and work, and his contributions, I can’t help but think about my mother and the role that she played in making sure that he could go out there and do that work,” Paul said. Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform. Article Topic Follows: News