No César E. Chávez Day (Birthday) observance and celebration planned at City Hall in the City of Milwaukee, nor at the Chávez life-size bronze statue location on the Chávez BID 38!
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
March 29, 2024
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - The 9th annual César E. Chávez Birthday observation at City Hall in City of Milwaukee is not scheduled to be celebrated due to the Chávez Birthday falling on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024.
Many offices at City Hall will be closed on Good Friday, March 29, 2024.
Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) checked any available news (press releases) mentioning, if the Chávez observance would take place at City Hall and apparently no info has been released by Milwaukee Common Council President, Alderman Jóse G. Pérez, and the City Clerk's Office including the Cavalier Johnson Mayor's Office.
Last year, the Chávez Birthday observance was announced a few days before Chávez's Birthday after HNNUSA reported that no information was available, if City Hall would officially observe the Chávez Birthday celebration.
9 years ago, the Milwaukee Common Council spear headed by Alderman Pérez led the approval of an optional Chávez Holiday for the City of Milwaukee employees.
Also, their is no planned Chávez Birthday celebration at the Chávez Placita where a $50,000 bronze life-size Chávez statue is located at the 900 block of S. César E. Chávez Drive in the Southside of Milwaukee.
The Chávez life-size bronze statue is located in the property of Supermercado El Rey.
Milwaukee's Southside became the 8th location in the nation and the 1st city in the Midwest to unveil a Chávez life-size bronze statue in 2016.
The United Farm Workers (UFW) union leader Cesár E. Chávez would have been celebrating his 98th Birthday on March 31, 2024, if alive. Chávez passed away in 1993 at the age of 66.
Chávez, a military veteran from California was well known for his Mexican-American Civil Rights movement nationally including Wisconsin in the late 1960's and early 1970's during the boycott of grapes campaign that later led for Latino (Mexican-Americans) farm workers to earn better wages and better housing conditions for migrant farm workers.
Recently, the Milwaukee County Transit System installed a César E. Chávez commemorative bus stop shelter at the 800 block of S. César E. Chávez Drive.
A second Chávez Dr. bus shelter is located at W. Greenfield Ave. and S. Chávez Dr..
About article writer, H. Nelson Goodson is a Civil Rights advocate, a "Comprehensive Immigration Reform With A Path To Citizenship" immigrant rights activist, a journalist/reporter for nearly 40 years and a Milwaukee Southsider.
Source: Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA)
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