A Midwest tour to honor labor organizer Cesar Chavez stops in Northeast Ohio this week, with events commemorating his legacy of organizing farm laborers in the state and throughout the U.S.

The capstone Northeast Ohio event will be a talk by Andres Chavez , the grandson of Cesar Chavez and the executive director of the National Chavez Center, on Thursday, October 16 at 6:30 p.m. at Orange High School in Pepper Pike. The talk is free and open to the public.

“We have an incredible opportunity to reintroduce his legacy and his values to the American public,” Andres Chavez said. “It's not just sharing history, but it's really thinking about those valuable lessons that we can learn from the past and how we can apply them to our causes today.”

Another event on Thursday morning at the main

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