Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. César Chávez leads a march of United Farm Workers in Salinas, Calif., on March 7, 1979. (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press) One ...

One summer day in 1988, before the sun rose, my parents packed my three younger sisters and me into our beige Chevy station wagon. We drove from Oxnard to Delano, Calif., to stand in support of what ...