Cesar Chavez National Historic Park is in the works (Yes, Half Dome and Old Faithful are so embarrassingly white-bread.)

Cesar Chavez National Historic Park is in the works



With sites in California and Arizona, the proposed park would honor Cesar Chavez and his farm labor movement. One goal is for national parks to resonate with a wider variety of Americans.

By Julie Cart

October 24, 2013, 9:33 p.m.

The mission of America's 400 national parks is to reflect the country's history — no matter how uncomfortable or unflattering — which is why some contain depictions of slavery, the fight for women's suffrage, Japanese internment and the struggle for civil rights.

Now that archive could include the contributions of Latinos through the telling of the often tempestuous story of Cesar Chavez.

The National Park Service on Thursday announced plans to establish the Cesar Chavez National Historic Park, to recognize the achievements of the activist and the farm labor movement he led. . . .

"We Latinos might stick our heads into Yosemite or Santa Monica Mountains, but there is not much to relate to.… That's why this is so important. . . .

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