KEENE, Calif. (AP) – Civil rights and labor leader Cesar Chavez is going to be honored for a different kind of service. On Thursday, the 22nd anniversary of his death, Chavez will get full ...

The event is set for 10 a.m. Thursday at the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in Keene, Calif. The 116-acre property was the headquarters of the United Farm Workers, which Chavez helped found ...

Cesar Chavez is known as civil rights leader, labor icon, farmworker's champion and founder of the National Farm Workers Association. Many don't know he can also be called as a U.S. Navy veteran.

At Chavez’s funeral mass, an audience of 40,000 farmworkers and people from all walks of life heard Cardinal Roger Mahony say, “Cesar Chavez was a special prophet to farmworkers.” ...

A recent Telemundo segment that featured an Associated Press photo of RFK Jr. helping carry Cesar’s casket during his 1993 funeral procession also angered the family.

A Cesar Chavez button is seen in El Paso, Texas, during a celebration of the civil rights leader on March 31, 2000. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/Hulton Archive hide caption ...

Cesar Chavez gets Navy funeral honors 22 years after his death. By Associated Press April 23, 2015. KEENE, Kern County — Hundreds gathered Thursday to see military honors rendered belatedly for ...

Hundreds gathered Thursday to see military honors rendered belatedly for Cesar Chavez, the legendary rights and labor leader but also a Navy veteran.On the 22nd anniversary of his death, Chavez ...