What does Louisiana mean? Louisiana (La Louisianne) was named by explorer RenÃ©-Robert Cavelier in the mid 1600's to honor King Louis XIV of France. President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from Napoleon in 1803 (the original Louisiana territory is now divided between 13 states). Louisiana.
Reagan started it. In his 1982 State of the Union speech, Reagan did something new. Almost 200 years after George Washington gave the first annual message from the President to Congress, Reaganâs first State of the Union started a tradition by inviting Lenny Skutnik to attend.
Cesar Chavez Foundation When Cesar Chavez began building what became the United Farm Workers of America on his birthday, March 31, 1962, he had a different vision of what a union movement could be. Cesar, Dolores Huerta and many others who would join him did a lot of research, studying why all the attempts to organize farm workers over the previous 100 years failed.