Finally, he sketched one on a piece of brown wrapping paper. He asked Richard to design the flag, but Richard had problems making an eagle that he liked. Cesar told the story of the birth of the eagle.

That same year, Richard Chavez designed the UFW Eagle.

In 1962, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta and others founded the National Farm Workers Association, later to become the United Farm Workers. The flag depicts an eagle and was inspired by Aztec imagery. The flag behind Biden was the UFW’s official flag, which was designed in 1962 by Richard Chávez, César Chávez’ younger brother. During her speech, Biden stood in front of a flag that many on social media claimed was Nazi-inspired. That day, she was also honoring César Chávez, a UFW leader and civil rights activist who died in 1993. While there, she urged farmworkers to get vaccinated as well. On March 31, 2021, first lady Jill Biden visited the Forty Acres in California, a vaccination site and a National Historic Landmark that became the first headquarters of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), a labor union for farm workers across the country. Other historians argued that the flag colors were chosen partly because that shade of red was inexpensive for printers, while others reported Chávez chose “white for hope, black for the plight of the workers, and red for the sacrifice that would be required of them.” Regardless, many experts say associating the flag directly with the Nazi movement is incorrect. According to one historian, César Chávez researched color combinations on cigarette boxes and Nazi flags when deciding on the flag for the farm workers' movement.

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