Ventura’s Jack Nava persuaded postal officials to issue a stamp of Cesar Chavez and was a regular protester at the Academy Awards
Tagged: activist, cesar chavez, protest“Latino rights activist Jack Nava, a driving force behind a campaign to put a visage of late labor leader Cesar Chavez on a postage stamp, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack at his Ventura home. He was 68.
During an eight-year push to persuade the U.S. Postal Service to issue a commemorative stamp featuring the United Farm Workers founder, Nava helped collect more than 25,000 signatures, circulating a homemade petition at college campuses, civil rights marches and other community events….”
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Posted on: January 29th, 2006Curation from Tomás
Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, People
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