
Bonus Episode: Marc Grossman on Helen and Cesar Chavez
Significant Others
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The Importance of Love in a Woman's Life
When Helen Chavez died in 2016, some well-meaning people were saying that every great man is a great woman. Did she ever give the sense that she was at all conflicted about going along with this massive change in their lifestyle and their family prospects? "I want to go to a different country and live like a queen," Caesar Chavez told his eight children when he got an offer of a job as Peace Corps head. 'That dream to organize farm workers whose lives both Caesar and Helen had shared was a joint dream'
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