Cesar Chavez: Respect For All (2018)

Genesis Butler is a 9-year-old vegan activist. She is writing a speech to give at a TedX talk and wants to learn more about her great grand-uncle, Cesar Chavez, who was a co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union. She travels with her family to the Cesar Chavez National Monument in Keene, California. While she is there, she talks to Arturo Rodriguez (President of the UFW), Paul Chavez (Cesar's son), and other people who worked with Cesar Chavez. She learns that Chavez was not only a farm worker activist. He promoted women in the workplace in the 1960s and 1970s, long before that became an accepted practice. He was also a gay rights activist in the 1970s and 1980s, decades before gay rights became an accepted part of American society. And then, in the last years of this life, Cesar Chavez became a vegan for the animals, for the environment, and for his health. At the end of this 22-minute documentary, Genesis is shown making her TedX presentation.