Did beloved labor rights activist Cesar Chavez ever come to Utah? [Video]

To Cesar Chavez, they were never invisible.

“They” were farmworkers all over the country who saw inspiration and found dignity and relief through the life work of the humble labor organizer. And for his work, there’s little chance Cesar Chavez’s name will ever be forgotten. It adorns buildings, books, parks andnational monument.

There is even a bust of Chavez behind the Resolute Desk in President Biden’s Oval Office.

A Yuma, Arizona native, Chavez led his life as a champion and activist for a critical segment of the agriculture industry, farmworkers.

“I think he’s one of the iconic figures and Mexican-American history and today Latino history” said Ignacio Garcia, a professor of history at Brigham Young University. “I think he set the context with what would be the modern Civil Rights movement among Mexican-Americans are what came to be known as that Chicano Civil Rights Movement.”

Chavez spent his early life as a farm laborer before co-founding the National …