EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Students with La Fe Preparatory School honored the life and legacy of civil rights and labor icon César E. Chávez on the day bearing his name.
About 200 students from the school marched through the Segundo Barrio neighborhood around their school.
“Our students may be little children, but at their tender age they are already beginning to understand that their community must unite and demand their rights to a good education, a dignified home, to fair wages in a safe workplace, and to quality, affordable health care,” said Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe CEO Salvador Balcorta.
The educators at the school have been working closely with the school’s students to teach them about the important and groundbreaking contributions of activist like Chávez and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, Balcorta said.
“César would have been proud to see these little ones becoming tomorrow’s leaders. They are being taught and raised to be confident, educated, and proud voices for their community. Teaching our youth what it means to be true activists and informed voters is everyone’s responsibility,” Balcorta added.
Chávez was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma, Arizona and died on April 23, 1993 in San Luis, Arizona. In 2014, President Barack H. Obama declared March 31 a national holiday in Chávez’s honor.
The La Fe Preparatory School is a public, dual-language, immersion charter school based in El Paso’s Segundo Barrio.
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