By Richard Bammer

Imagine working all day in the hot sun, with little food, water and no rest breaks, for 35 cents.

That is what some Hispanic field workers earned in 1965 in America’s West and Southwest, Markham Elementary teacher Norma Guerrero recently explained to her class of 24 students.

But Cesar Chavez, best known as the co-founder of the United Farmworkers of America in the mid-20th century, told the beleaguered workers across the nation that “we can change these working conditions,” said Guerrero, a bilingual teacher for 16 years at the Markham Avenue campus.

via Markham third-grade class honors Hispanic labor leader’s life, legacy.