page_title: List of Mexican Americans
section_title: Civil rights leaders and community activists
hierarchical_section_title: List of Mexican Americans / Civil rights leaders and community activists
caption_attribution_description: English: César Chávez — speaking at the Delano UFW−United Farm Workers rally in Delano, California, June 1972. Duncan West was there representing the Teamsters who were supporiting the UFW and condeming their IBT leadership for working as thugs against a fellow union. Duncan and his wife Mary were the branch organizers of the LA IS. César Chávez, cofounder of UFW; b. 31 March 1927, d. 23 April 1993. Chavacano de Zamboanga: César Chávez at a United Farmworkers rally 1974. Deutsch: César Chávez Español: César Estrada Chavez فارسی: سزار چاوز Suomi: César Chávez 日本語: セサール・チャベズ、農業労働者連合の集会で、1974年. 農業労働者連合集会におけるセザール・シャベス、1974年. Norsk bokmål: César Chávez. Simple English: César Chávez. Türkçe: César Chávez.
context_page_description: Mexican Americans are residents of the United States who have Mexican ancestry. The list includes Mexican immigrants and those who lived in the southwestern United States when the territory was incorporated in 1848.
context_section_description: Lucy G. Acosta – civil rights activist
  Gaylon Alcaraz – community organizer, human rights activist
  Lupe Anguiano – civil rights activist
  Lorena Borjas – Mexican-born American transgender and immigrant rights activist, known as the mother of the transgender Latinx community in Queens, New York
  Norma V. Cantu – civil rights lawyer and college professor
  Carlos Cadena – attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas supreme court case
  Adelfa Botello Callejo – civil rights lawyer
  José Tomás Canales – civil rights activist and politician active during the early 1900s, played key role in the foundation of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
  Aurora Castillo – environmental activist
  Sal Castro – civil rights activist and educator
  Ernesto Chacon – Latino and low income civil rights activist
  César Chávez(1927–1993) – labor leader and activist
  Linda Chavez-Thompson – former executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO
  Miguel Contreras – labor leader
  Jeanne Córdova – lesbian and gay rights activist, writer
  Bert Corona – labor and community organizer
  Ricardo Cruz – attorney, civil rights activist
  Jessie Lopez De La Cruz – labor organizer
  Maria Echaveste – former White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
  Josefina Fierro de Bright – civil rights activist during The Great Depression
  Ernesto Galarza – labor activist, professor, and writer
  Gustavo C. Garcia – attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas supreme court case
  Hector P. Garcia – physician, veteran, and civil rights advocate
  Eva Carrillo de García – missionary, nurse, and civil-rights activist
  Erika Guevara Rosas – human rights lawyer, Americas director at Amnesty International
  Anna Nieto-Gómez – activist and journalist
  Rodolfo Gonzales – leader of the Chicano civil rights movement, boxer, poet
  José Ángel Gutiérrez – political activist, founder of the Raza Unida party, writer, and professor
  John J. Herrera – civil rights leader
  Dolores Huerta – civil rights leader
  Jovita Idár – journalist, political activist and civil rights worker
  Ralph Lazo – advocated on behalf of Japanese American internment victims.
  Nativo Lopez – civil rights activist
  Raul Loya – civil rights activist
  Mimi Lozano – co-founded the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research
  Angel G. Luévano – labor leader and activist
  Rueben Martinez – activist and businessman
  Vilma Socorro Martínez – civil rights activist, lawyer and diplomat
  Eliseo Medina – labor activist
  Enrique Morones – immigrant human rights activist
  Janet Murguía – civil rights activist
  Ernesto Nieto – founder of the National Hispanic Institute
  Alex Pacheco – activist
  Emiliano Reyes – business executive and humanitarian activist. He is of Mexican and Swedish descent.
  Julian Samora – community activist, teacher, and scholar
  Leila Steinberg – educator dedicated to helping at-risk youth find their voice using an emotional literacy curriculum, best known as mentor of rapper Tupac Shakur.
  Olga Talamante – political activist
  Emma Tenayuca – labor organizer
  Reies López Tijerina – activist, founder of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes
  John Trudell – musician, author, poet, and political activist
  Cristina Tzintzún – organizer, author, and co-founder of the Workers Defense Project
  Baldemar Velasquez – president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee
  Gustavo Velasquez – Secretary of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
  Delia Villegas Vorhauer – activist, social worker, and writer
  Vicente T. Ximenes – civil rights activist, commissioner of EEOC, and chairman of first Presidential Cabinet on Mexican American Affairs
  Raul Yzaguirre – civil rights activist
caption: César Chávez at a United Farmworkers rally, 1974
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