American Latino Heritage Featured Places

Here, Cesar Chavez was laid to rest in 1993. Upon her passing in 2016, Cesar's wife Helen was interred by his side. Cesar wished to be buried on the grounds where he pursued his labors as an activist during his last quarter century. After his passing, Helen Chavez made it clear she did not want him to ever be left alone.

In 1966, "The Forty Acres," a parcel of land in Delano, California, became the headquarters for the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), the first permanent agricultural labor union in the United States.

Many people who were involved in the farmworker movement were laid to rest in this cemetery, including Larry Itliong, Richard Chavez, and other notable Delano Grape Strike leaders who dedicated their lives to the movement.

Southside Park in Sacramento, California is the site of historic development and urban planning. The park was known for its surrounding Latino and multicultural communities, as well as the site of the United Farm Workers March in the spring of 1966. The Southside Park retains sufficient historic integrity and demonstrate its role in city planning, and its subsequent role as a community gathering space for celebration and recreation throughout the 20th century.

The house where Dolores Huerta lived in the 1960s and early 1970s while she worked with Cesar Chavez to build the farmworker movement that empowered agricultural workers and improved their living conditions.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2019, the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, was the sole public education institution for the city’s Hispanic students from 1909-1965. The Blackwell School is a significant local example of the period when the practice of “separate but equal” dominated education and social systems in the United States.

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the largest of the California State Parks and protects a crossroads of desert landscapes and ecosystems. It is located on the traditional homelands of the Cocopah and Cuahuilla. The park contains a particularly dramatic and scenic section of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2019, the Church of the Epiphany is significant for its architecture and as a local movement center for the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. Its role as a house of worship and social justice center continues in the predominantly Latinx Lincoln Heights community in Los Angeles, California.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2015, the Forsythe Memorial School for Girls was originally founded in 1884 and run by the Women’s Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church. Forsythe Memorial School is a rare, surviving representation of Americanization attempts made by Protestant denominations to homogenize Mexican American culture in Los Angeles, California.

Freedom Tower in Miami, Florida is considered the "Ellis Island of the South” for its role from 1962 through 1974 as the Cuban Assistance Center, offering nationally sanctioned relief to the Cuban refugees who sought political asylum from the regime of Fidel Castro.