Segundo Barrio students honor civil-rights icon César Chávez with commemorative march
Children from Segundo Barrio’s La Fe Preparatory School honored the life and legacy of Chicano and Civil-Rights Icon César E. Chávez with a march on Thursday. Children from Segundo Barrio's La Fe Preparatory School held a commemorative march to celebrate the life and legacy of Chicano and Civil-Rights Icon César E. Chávez. The march was held at 9 a.m. with nearly 200 Pre-K through 5th grade students and their teachers. They were greeted and cheered on by residents and La Fe staff members. Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe CEO Salvador Balcorta MSSW stated that the students were already beginning to understand that their community must demand their rights to a good education, a dignified home, fair wages in a safe workplace, and quality, affordable health care. Chapvez was born in 1927 and died in 1993 in San Luis.
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Children from Segundo Barrio’s La Fe Preparatory School honored the life and legacy of Chicano and Civil-Rights Icon César E. Chávez with a march on Thursday.
The march was held at 9 a.m.
The nearly 200 Pre-K through 5th grade students and their teachers marched out the school’s front door and marched east on the sidewalks of Father Rahm Avenue.
They were greeted and cheered on by Segundo Barrio residents and La Fe staff members at the La Fe Central Clinic and the La Fe Child and Adolescent Wellness Center.
“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 MSSW.
“It is really important for the students to know who he is and what he did. He is very important to the Segundo Barrio community. He fought for the rights of agricultural workers and for the life of migrant workers," said Mayra Torres second grade teacher at the school.
“It’s something from our past and history that we need to be aware of," Torres 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 31st a national holiday. Chávez would have been 97 years old this year.
The La Fe Preparatory School is a public, dual-language, immersion charter school based in the heart of El Paso’s historic Segundo Barrio.
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