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CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RADIO SOCIETY IS PLEASED TO HONOR

EDWARD A. SHARPE
WITH THE
CHARLES D. 'DOC' HERROLD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE PRESERVATION AND DOCUMENTATION OF EARLY RADIO.

BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 1992:

 

 

 

 

 

César E. Chávez 2009


Happy Birthday César E. Chávez!

 

Chavez is best known as the founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW). He was a tireless advocate for nonviolent social change, and dedicated his life to working in service of others. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy called Chavez "one of the heroic figures of our time."

A second-generation American, Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, near his family's farm in Yuma, Ariz. At age 10, his family became migrant farm workers after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Throughout his youth and into his adulthood, Chavez migrated across the Southwest laboring in the fields and vineyards, where he was exposed to the hardships and injustices of farm worker life.

After achieving only an eighth-grade education, Chavez left school to work in the fields full-time to support his family. He attended more than 30 elementary and middle schools. Although his formal education ended then, he possessed an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and was self-taught in many fields and well read throughout his life.

Chavez joined the U.S. Navy in 1946 and served in the Western Pacific in the aftermath of World War II.

Chavez's life as a community organizer began in 1952 when he joined the Community Service Organization (CSO), a prominent Latino civil rights group. While with the CSO, Chavez coordinated voter registration drives and conducted campaigns against racial and economic discrimination primarily in urban areas. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Chavez served as CSO's national director.

In 1962 Chavez resigned from the CSO to establish the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America.

For more then three decades Chavez led the first successful farm workers union in American history, achieving dignity, respect, fair wages, medical coverage, pension benefits and humane living conditions as well as countless other rights and protections for hundreds of thousands of farm workers. His union's efforts brought about the passage of the groundbreaking 1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act to protect farm workers. Today, it remains the only law in the nation that protects the right of farm workers to unionize.

Chavez passed away on April 23, 1993, in San Luis, Ariz.

The stamp image was painted by freelance illustrator Robert Rodriguez and features a portrait of Chavez against a background of empty grape fields. Rodriguez based the portrait on a 1976 photograph of Chavez taken by Bob Fitch and provided to the Postal Service by the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation in Los Angeles, Calif. Rodriguez based the background on an aerial photograph taken in the 1960s by Ted Streshinsky. (USPS)

Info from Stamp Release #02-072 USPS

Glendale Chamber Foundation's sixth annual 
Cesar E. Chavez Breakfast Celebrating Diversity

Tuesday March, 31


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Glendale AZ- GDP-Ed Sharpe> The Glendale Chamber Foundation's sixth-annual Cesar Chavez Breakfast kicked off at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday March, 31 at the Glendale Civic Center ballroom. The breakfast was  open to the public but was... SOLD OUT!.

 

 

 

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  Mas Inoshita Diversity award winner... - life- highlights

Mas Inoshita has been challenged by fate in a way that few people can compare to but he shows no trace of bitterness.

 

When Mas was 21 years old, two days from his 22nd birthday while running the family truck in Santa Maria, CA,---Japan bombed Pearl Harbor bringing the United States into WWII.  The US reaction to the attack was the herding of thousands of Japanese immigrants and American born men, women and children of Japanese descent into “assembly centers” and internment camps.  This terrible act of isolation tore the Inoshito family away from California but would not tear apart the family and Mas’ sense of loyalty to the country where he was born.

 

After losing almost everything they had, Mas’ family was forced to move to an “assembly center” and forced to live in a converted horse stall in a county fairground encircled with barbed wire.  Eventually the family was sent by rail car to Casa Grande and then to what is now known as the Gila River Indian Community (South of Chandler).

 

From 1942 – 1946 More than 110,000 United States residents of Japanese ancestry---most of them U.S. citizens like Inoshita---were removed from their homes by presidential executive order and relocated to detention centers built in isolated areas of the country.

 

In spite of all that his family had been through, when his family was interned in Arizona in WWII----Mas enlisted in the U.S. Army.   He was trained as a translator and interrogator and spent his days trying to make sense of captured Japanese documents and interrogated Japanese soldiers. 

 

The Glendale Chamber Foundation is honored to present the 2009 Diversity Award to Mas Inoshita in recognition of his outstanding service to his country through acts of courage, leadership and diversity. 

 

In spite of the difficult road he traveled, he is a shining example of the principles that Cesar Chavez stood for. Please join me in congratulating Mas Inoshita.

 


 

The Glendale Chamber Foundation raised 

Funds to contribute to the 

Cesar Chavez Foundation

for diversity education!.

 


 

 

Keynote Speaker bio for Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez

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Discusses diversity and talks about here WWII documentation project - please see links below... this is a fantastic undertaking!

 

Quick Facts on Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez

  • Born in San Antonio in 1955; raised nearby in the small town of Devine

     

    • Enrolls at The University of Texas at Austin, discovers a love for journalism while working at a Spanish-language radio station and at the Daily Texan; graduates with honors in 1976

    • Earns a master's degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1977

    • Begins her professional journalism career in 1977 as a copy editor and reporter for United Press International in Dallas

    • From 1979 to 1988 works as a newspaper and TV reporter in Dallas and Boston; from 1988 to 1996 works as border bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News in El Paso

    • Serves on the committee that organizes and founds the National Association of Hispanic Journalists

    • Attends the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Freedom Forum doctoral fellow, earning a Ph.D. in mass communication in 1998

    • Since 1999 has spearheaded the U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, which has collected interviews with more than 450 people; project has included a conference, an edited volume of academic manuscripts, a play, a documentary film with educational materials, a general interest book, and a video, audio and photographic archive.

    • Gains national prominence in 2007 by leading protests that Ken Burns’ forthcoming PBS documentary “The War” did not include any Latinos; Burns incorporates Latino stories into the 14-hour, seven-part documentary, airing in September

    • Receives the Ruben Salazar Award for Communications from the National Council of La Raza in 2007; the award is given each year to an individual who has dedicated his or her life to promoting a positive portrayal of Latino historical, political, economic, and cultural contributions to American society

Related Links:

Professor Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
U.S. Latino & Latina World War II Oral History Project

School of Journalism

http://tutube.nalip.org/_-Maggie-Rivas-Rodriguez-2008-NALIP-Lifetime-Achievement/video/183068/18188.html

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ww2latinos/index.html


More infomation from her Associate Professor Page at the university.

 

Contact Information:
CMA A6.170C
512-471-0405
mrivas@mail.utexas.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Rivas-Rodriguez has more than 17 years of daily news experience, mostly as a reporter for the Boston Globe, WFAA-TV in Dallas and the Dallas Morning News. Her first job was as a copy editor for UPI in Dallas. Her most recent professional work was for the Morning News state desk as bureau chief of the border bureau, based in El Paso, covering border states.

Her research interests include the intersection of oral history and journalism, U.S. Latinos and the news media, both as producers of news and as consumers. Since 1999, Rivas-Rodriguez has spearheaded the U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, which has collected interviews with over 650 men and women throughout the country. Stories based on those interviews are written by UT journalism students, as part of their coursework. The project has several components designed to reach audiences ranging from school children, to academics, to the general public. Those components include conferences, books, a two-act play, (through Arizona State University Public Events and the University of Texas' Performing Arts Center), educational materials. At the heart of the project is a rich archive of primary source material, in the form of videotaped interviews, photographs and other documentation. The project has enjoyed support from the Austin American-Statesman and the San Antonio Express-News, from foundations, corporations and hundreds of individual donors. It continues to gather interviews, largely with the help of a small army of volunteers made up of professional journalists, academics and others. It has also relied on partnerships with universities, various centers, and with the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Readjustment  Counseling Service.

Rivas-Rodriguez has been recognized nationally for helping to create greater awareness of the contributions of U.S. Latinos & Latinas of the World War II generation. In 2007, she received the National Council of La Raza's Ruben Salazar Award for Communications, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Leadership Award and the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education's Outstanding Support of Hispanic Issues in Higher Education. She was also named to the DFW Network of Hispanic Communicator's Hall of Fame in 2006.

Rivas-Rodriguez has long been active since her college years in volunteer efforts to bring greater diversity to the news media. She was on the committee that organized and founded the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 1982. She began two of the NAHJ's most successful student projects: a convention newspaper produced by college students and professionals and a nationwide high school writing contest. The convention newspaper has become the model for other industry organizations (ASNE, NABJ, AAJA) as a way to develop mentoring relationships and to train students.

She received her Ph.D. as a Freedom Forum doctoral fellow from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her masters is from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and her bachelor of journalism degree is from the University of Texas at Austin.

Recent Courses: PA 388K Latino Policy Issues (cross-listed with journalism and Mexican American Studies); J349T Covering the U.S. Latino Community; J366 Journalism History; J320D Intermediate Reporting; J349T Oral History as Journalism; J395 Covering the U.S.-Mexico Border and J395 Professional Writing for Journalists.

Publications: "A Legacy Greater than Words: Stories of Latinos & Latinas of the World War II Generation," with Juliana Torres, Melissa DiPiero-D'Sa and Lindsay Fitzpatrick (Austin: U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project, 2006); Mexican Americans & World War II, an edited volume (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005); Brown Eyes on the Web: An Alternative U.S. Latino Newspaper on the Internet (New York: Routledge, 2003).


TAKE THE CESAR CESAR CHAVEZ TRIVIA QUIZ!
http://www.colapublib.org/chavez/facts_quiz.htm

 

Other great links on Cesar Chavez from  the Los Angles Library

César E. Chávez Home Page | César E. Chávez Community Service Week | Community and Library Events
Honoring César E. Chávez  | Story of the UFW Flag
Reading Lists | César E. Chávez Web Links | Prayer of the Farm Worker's Struggle
César E. Chávez Chronology | Some Facts About César E. Chávez | César E. Chávez Curriculum

 

 

Glendale Chamber Foundation's fourth annual 
Cesar E. Chavez Breakfast Celebrating Diversity

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