Cesar Chavez's Life

Between the 1930s and 1950s, the United States government created and implemented labor laws including establishing the minimum wage. However, in every single one of those laws, farm workers were left out. Because of this, farm workers were able to be paid and treated any way their employer wished. This spawned a series of protests that evolved into a labor union, led by a man named Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez’s actions during the labor movement make him deserving of the La Raza award because he achieved equal rights for farm workers without the use of violence, and he united people throughout his protests.

The speaker, a second-generation American, Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona. His family lost their farm during the Great Depression, urging them to become migrant workers. With an eighth-grade education, Chavez left school to work in the fields full-time to support his family. Despite his formal education ending, he still possessed an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and when he could, educated himself further. (ChavezFoundation.org)

In Yuma, Arizona 1927 on his grandfather’s farm, Cesar Chavez was born. He attended 36 different schools as he moved around in California. He was not rich although he did have a happy childhood. As he grew up Cesar Chavez became an effective leader for farmer workers. What made Cesar Chavez an effective leader? Cesar Chavez was an effective leader because he created a union (UFW), exposed farmer’s working conditions and organized boycotts.

In another passage from Ann Mcgregor's book (Remembering Cesar) that he went on a hunger strike for the farm workers. He was willing to sacrifice himself for others, which I think proves him to be a great leader. He quoted this in the book (Remembering Cesar) "I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men"(Cesar Chavez

During his lifetime, Cesar Chavez and his followers made many changes and contributions to society. While he was alive, he had the privilege to see what his non-violence actions produced; what they transpired. It is recorded that Chavez began actively organizing workers in the fields in 1952. The California-based Community Service Organization (CSO) recruited and trained for his work. Chavez built new chapters of CSO, led voter registration drives, and helped Mexican-Americans confront issues of police and immigration abuse during the next ten years. In 1958 he became general director of CSO. With

To prove this, Chavez actually went out, and asked people door to door what conditions were they working in and what do they want (Tavaana.org 2016). This is ridiculous, who actually goes door to door, and asks for everybody’s working conditions and what they want? Although he didn’t do this by himself, this shows he really wants the workers to have a better life, and he works hard so it can come true. He also show perseverance when he walks 400 miles from Delano to Sacramento in 25 days (P.L Shelton 2004). This dude is crazy, he actually walked from Delano to Sacramento for a cause. Many people would’ve just quit, I would’ve quit after ten miles. But this shows real perseverance, he’s willing to do anything for the workers, and even gained 10,000 supporters. As we already know, Chavez had a very limited education. But even after dropping out of school, he still was learning more things every single day. He had many books on philosophy and he would read these books every day (United Farm Workers 2016). This shows true perseverance, he would still read even with his limited education, he was learning more and more each day, that’s true perseverance. Chavez was a hard worker and showed a lot of courage by

Chavez was a Latino farmer. He migrated to Arizona. Cesar Chavez was working in the South in hot fields and vineyards. After his forceful speech, he was known as a religious and spiritual person. From Chavez’s background, he understands the hard workers

Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and leader of the civil rights movements. Chavez was in search of justice for his people, especially Mexicans and Latinos. He stands up for these people because he saw how their bosses were with those people. Their bosses were treating them like slaves and not paying them the amount of money they should be getting. Chavez was a victim of that and he saw that no one was making any changes and he took the chance and do justice.

The article “Cesar Chavez Saved My Life,” written by Daniel “Nane” Alejandrez reflects on Mr. Alejandraz’s past, covering some very unfortunate events, but with a purpose of pulling emotion from the reader. While reading some parts of the article, I had to reread it over a few times to comprehend the point that the author was trying to make. The most important thing about knowing his past is that it is significantly different, and much more positive in the future because of one person, Cesar Chavez.

During his time at the CSO, he had met Dolores Huerta, a woman who shared his passion for obtaining farm worker’s civil rights. His plan was to fight for the rights of the migrant and resident farm workers in California. To achieve this goal, Chavez set out to form a “viable union” among the thousands of disenfranchised farm workers.

Cesar Chavez was born March 31, 1927, near Yuma, Arizona. He was the son of Librado Chávez and Juana Estrada Chavez. He grew up in Arizona with four siblings; Richard Chavez, Librado Chavez, Rita Chavez Medina, and Vicki Chavez Lastra. His home was a small adobe house on some 40 acres of land. This house was taken by Anglos. Cesar's father offered to clear 80 acres of land to earn the house back. This agreement was broken and the house was sold to another man named Justus Jackson. The Chavez's would get the house back, but not for long.

Cesar Chavez made a change towards the working conditions of migrant farmers which will impact many future generations. Organizing protests all around the Northwest region to taking on many fast in his lifetime, Chavez has been one of the most influential contributor to the fight for equal rights for farm workers.

Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma Arizona on March 31, 1927. Cesar Chavez was in a family of seven brothers and four sisters. Caesar lived in a mud house where his parents owned a grocery store and ranch, but lost both during the Great Depression. His family moved to California, where they became farmers for a living. Caesar left high school in the seventh grade to work for the good of his family. Caesar joined the United States Army when he was seventeen and served for two years. Caesar married Helen Fabela and moved to San Jose, California, where he had eight children. Caesar was recruited and trained by Fred Ross. Fred then formed the San Jose chapter of the Community Service Organization a Latin American civil rights movement. Cesar worked

They’re mother once told them, “you always have to help the needy, and god will help you.” (An American Hero the Biography of César E. Chávez.) His family lived in a small adobe home until Anglos unjustly took their land away. As a young child Cesar learned about the spiteful world he lived in. When his family lost their land during the depression his family moved to California.

His parents were Mexican immigrants looking for better economic opportunities, but immigrants were treated as second class citizens during the 1930’s in the United States. This made it hard for Chavez father and mother to support themselves let alone for a family a six. When Chavez father tried to buy a house, he couldn’t afford to pay the interest on the mortgage with the family wage. After losing their home the Chavez family moved to California looking for a place to live and work, but this was during the Great Depression making it even harder. Chavez saw how hard his parents to had work hard to buy a house only to lose it because of the extreme low wages they got paid.