Cesar Chavez: A Hispanic Man

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with them. The people who give you their food gives you their heart.” Cesar Chavez and his family moved to California he lived in a poor town called. Sal si puedes which means escape if you can .Then when Cesar Chavez was nineteen he joined the Navy in 1946. For two years but he stopped and joined the CSO in 1952 while working he began to work for latino civil rights. In 1965 the NWFA joined the AWOC in a strike against the grape growers . His bravery was with him the whole time .

In the mid-1960s thousands of Chicanos, people of Mexican descent, walked off the California grape fields in which they worked in protest of exploitation and poor working conditions. They wanted fair wages, better working conditions, and education for their children. They wanted all the opportunities that were extended to other Americans. Among the disgruntled employees was the soft-spoken César Chávez, who believed that his people’s plight could be resolved through the mechanism of non-violent protests. Chief among these mechanisms were his firm belief in fasting and non-violent strikes. These beliefs were the combined result of his childhood experiences, significant

1. In the “Latino Threat Narrative”, Chavez believes that the international terrorism of 911 acts as a trigger and strikes which raised the alarm of the national identity crisis of the United States in 2011, meanwhile, it also further threatens the survival and image of Latino unlimitedly. When the American witnessed the tragedy and the danger of their country in 911, their patriotism leads them to perceive the foreigners, specially the Latino and Mexican as a threat, heresy or even enemy who threaten the stability and security of the national identity. Due to the rapid growth of the Latino population in the United State, the Latino not only constitutes as a threat on the national security, but also labeled as an illegally radicalized ethnics groups or even “illegal Aliens” who rejects to assimilate into the mainstream of American culture and their alienation even make the United State further loss its cohesion. As a result, the American is facing the danger of disintegration.

Cesar Estrada Chavez was born March 31, 1927 in Yuma Arizona the son of Librado and Juana Chavez. Cesar father owned 100 acres of land but was kicked off it when his parents couldn’t pay the taxes because it was during the great depression. When Chavez was young he and his family faced a lot of racisms everywhere. School was the worst place for Chavez because he was bullied for his mexican american culture. Chavez quit school to work in the fields full time to help his family. Chavez also served in Navy during world War II for two years. Even though he was fighting for the american country he was still treated bad because of he was mexican american. After he finished his two years in the navy he went to california to work in the farms. He married Helen fabela and had eight children.

In March of 1927 Cesar Estrada Chavez was born in Arizona. During the great depression his family lost their farm and had to move to California in search of work. During his childhood he only completed eight grades of school. In the 1940's during his early 20's Chavez joined the Navy. He met Helen Fabela and the two got married in 1948. After being in the Navy he worked his way up from a farm worker to an organizer in the Community Service Organization, created by Fred Ross in 1948. This training was used by Chavez for the future in finding the United Farm Workers. In 1962 is when Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association. They fought for clean water, bathrooms, lunch breaks, unemployment checks as well as fare wages for the farm

Immigrants around the world have come to this nation searching for a better sense of purpose and the chance to work for their families. I understood the need for these immigrants to work to make their source of income even more so from the field trip to SJSU. For Cesar Chavez, he saw the Catholic Social Teaching of the Dignity of work and rights of workers being disregarded. He and his fellow migrant workers couldn’t work with better equipment and therefore their health and safety were often jeopardized. Chavez spoke on behalf of the workers and worked to create the awareness of the issue by creating a community of union workers and working to make the lives

I am really conflicted on what would have been best for African-American women and Chicanas in the 1960’s. On one side, they should be fighting for rights for all minority groups, but organizing one giant group that encompasses everyone’s beliefs and feelings are hard to do, so I understand needing the different based on background, ethnicity and geological location. I want to say that they should join groups dominated by men, but at the same time, I know that the needs and wants of men and women are totally different.

Did you know the Triangle Fire was the biggest New York tragedy before 9/11! Did you also know that Cesar Chavez is the main reason America appears like this today! The Triangle Fire and Cesar Chavez were both able to help with human rights in their own ways. Cesar helped the farm workers get better conditions while the Triangle Fire also helped regular workers have better safety conditions. “About Cesar and Flesh” and “Blood so Cheap: The Triangle Fire and its Legacy” both showed how, many people were affected in bad ways because of how the conditions were before they improved. The two texts also went in detail on how awful the conditions were even though the farm workers’ conditions were far worse than the regular workers by a landslide.

Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona March 31, 1927. He is one of the five children from the Chavez family. The Chavez family was always known to be kind-hearted people who always offered their services when needed. When Chavez was a teenager his sister, Rita, would help him give farm workers and neighbors car rides to the hospital. Not once did they accept the money offered to them as payment.

Social Justice Society is always hesitant to accept change, regardless if it’s for the better. Social justice has become very important in today to ensure everyone is treated equally. Social justice can have multiple meanings, but for me its fighting for the equal treatment and wages for workers regardless of race. Cesar Chavez was one civil rights leader who fought this type of social justice. He fought for better treatment, wages, and working condition for farm workers.

On March 31, 1927, César Chávez was born in Yuma, Arizona as an American farm worker with 4 other siblings, Richard, Librado, Rita and Vicki. His parents were Juana Estrada and Librado Chávez. They owned a ranch and a grocery store but during the Great Depression, they lost it all. Chávez’s family became migrant farm workers in California after their house was stolen for them because of a contract being broken. In 1942, Chávez dropped out of seventh grade to take on the job his mother had as a worker in the fields because he thought that she shouldn’t have to be put under that much stress. Two years later he joined the United States Navy for two years. When he returned home, he married Helen Fabela Chávez and had 8 children together. In 1952,

Cesar Chavez is a well known, important, labor leader, civil rights activist and founder of the National Farm Workers Association. Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma Arizona. At a young age Chavez learned about the injustices and maltreatment of Mexicans at the hands of Anglo citizens. At the age of 10 Chavez and his family lost their home and store in 1937 forcing them to travel to California to become farm workers. At the time farm workers had to travel from farm to farm for whatever harvest was in season. Cesar Chavez only received an 8th grade education and went on to attended 38 different schools until he dropped out to become a farm worker. In his earliest form of social activism Chavez joined the Community Service Organization,

Cesar Chavez was a very important man in the Civil rights for farm workers. He has changed the old ways and has set ,more, better ways. He gave up so much for the farm workers and civil rights. Cesar Chavez helped get back many things like very little pay because they were paid so little; he even helped people with non-violence; and he even helped with pesticides because it was affecting the farm workers. Cesar Chavez has done so much for the farm workers.

Introduction Cesar Chavez his full name is Cesar Estrada Chavez. He was born in March 31, 1976 Yuma Arizona. U.S. he died in April 23, 1933. He was the founder of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in the year 1962.

Cesar Chavez was a civil rights activist with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. He is well respected for many things. Most importantly for wanting political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups.political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups. He had many awards, including, Presidential Medal of Freedom 1994, Jefferson Awards for Public Service 1973, and Pacem in Terris Award 1992. That’s a quick details about Cesar Chavez.