Today would have been the 85th birthday of civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, the founder of the United Farm Workers. .

Through his marches, pickets and boycotts he focused the attention of the nation to the plight of farmworkers who pick the fruits and vegetables for the nation’s tables.

He’s remembered in this column written by Margaret Moran, the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, in the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-moran/lulac-on-cesar-chavez_b_1393031.html