Today, March 29, 2021, is a school “holiday and day of community service for students and staff of the Houston Independent School District [HISD], the largest school district in Texas,” in honor of “César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, two labor activists who helped win greater rights for farmworkers across the country.” In 1962, Chávez and Huerta co-founded “what became the United Farm Workers of America union” to organize farmworkers to protest low pay while working in brutal conditions.

Courtesy of the Harris County Law Library