ABSTRACT
Although they never met as a group, César Chávez, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. shared kindred visions and were the civil rights icons of the 1960s. Among their linkages, all were reviled in some quarters for their efforts toward equality—Kennedy among many Southerners for his enforcement of racial integration imperatives as attorney general, Chávez by growers in California who regarded him similarly as a meddling outsider in local labor issues, and King by those who resented his dream of racial and economic quality. But their connections ran deeper.
