The festivities at the Mexican Heritage Plaza included mariachi and folklorico performances and a keynote by Anthony Chavez, grandson of the famed labor leader.
Hundreds of Alum Rock Union School District students marched to the Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San Jose on Thursday morning, continuing a three-decade-long tradition to celebrate labor leader Cesar Chavez.
Those adults included Alum Rock Union School District Superintendent Hilaria Bauer; San Jose State University President Cynthia Teniente-Matson, whose grandparents were farmworkers and who took part in Cesar Chavez marches in San Antonio, Texas, while she was a university president there; and Anthony Chavez, Cesar Chavez’s grandson, who taught the kids how to do the famous “unity clap.”
Alum Rock Union School District students wave flags and signs during a Cesar Chavez Day celebration at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose on Thursday, March 30, 2023. McDonnell Hall at San Jose’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Church — the national landmark where Cesar Chavez first honed his organizing skills — could be part of a new Cesar E. Chavez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park, which was proposed in legislation introduced Thursday by U.S. Sen.
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