United Farm Workers

Human Rights Mahatma Gandhi was arrested thirteen times during his lifetime, three of which were for not holding a registration card. Cesar Chavez dropped out of school at age fourteen to work as a migrant worker. Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head once and the shoulders twice for speaking out for women's rights in Pakistan. These three activists all persevered through hard times to enact change for human rights. Gandhi was a civil rights leader in India who began a revolution through non-violent

environments for farmers. During strikes, people would hold banners with the black eagle. These banners said stuff like HUELGA (strike) or VIVA LA CAUSA (long live our cause). These people wanted the government to pass laws which permitted farm workers to organize Unions. Cesar wanted to exercise boycotts, pickets, and strikes. He wanted to find recognition for farmers. Cesar even fasted so that the UFW would not use violence. He completed three memorable fasts. One in 1968 he went with only

we make a life by what we give.” Throughout time there have been many people who have wanted to enact change or make a difference even without benefiting themselves. Cesar Chavez helped migrant farmers with their unsafe work conditions and lack of workers’ rights. Mother Jones marched for childrens’ rights and to create child labor laws. Van Jones is fighting for human rights currently. These people all did amazing things, and all fought for a singular purpose. Cesar Chavez, Mother Jones, and Van Jones

Liberty and Justice for All Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Mother Jones stood up and fought for workers’ rights for mere children, marching with some all the way to the president to talk to him. Cesar Chavez was a well-known immigrant workers’ rights activist who had lived through the conditions he was trying to prevent. Emma Watson is a young feminist who is adamant about her cause and speaks out to the world. These

ideology that Protestants were above the Catholics. Another example of an institution would include United Farm Workers Union, which found its roots from the ideology of Filipino Manongs who believed that the should have a livable wage as workers. The Manongs along with the Chicano’s of Delano went on a strike which eventually led to the creation of the United Farm Workers Union. When a farmer wanted a worker,

Human Rights Human rights are very important and need to be protected. Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez and William Barber fought for human rights in one way or another. Mother Jones and Cesar Chavez fought for workers rights, while William Barber fights for civil rights. All of these individuals showed courage and determination while fighting for human rights. Mother Jones showed determination and grit while trying to fight for child laborers. She marched halfway across the country to change the way

how rough life was in California. In 1948 he got married with a woman named Helen Fabela. In their time together they had eight kids in the city of San Jose. In the time around 1950 they traveled together all around the country teaching migrant workers to read and to also write, so they could officially become U.S.

person does can change anything. While Mother Jones and Saru Jayaraman came face-to-face with solving workers’ rights, Cesar Chavez worked through an organization to get migration farmers better work. Although these individuals used different methods, they all showed leadership and courage to fight for the equality and the safety for others. Cesar Chavez enacted change by helping the United Farm Workers of America and by teaching people not to give up. Migrating farmers around the country were helped

with Filipino field workers on the Delano Huelga. While Chavez was in the UFW he asked the whole United States to help because it was everyone's problem not just farm workers. Whenever Chavez would form strikes he would approach workers in a completely legal way to avoid problems. Even though Chavez would led rallies justly police would often harass and arrest strikers so that workers kept working. Chavez told the police the arrest that they made against the labor union workers illegal. Cesar Chavez

Chavez was the second of five children. Cesar’s parents owned a small farm and ran a country store. As the great depression, the deepest and longest-lasting economic turn down or crisis in the history of the United States, got worse and had a drought for years that forced thousands of people to move off the land, the Chavez family moved to California. These hard times of sleeping on the side of the road, moving from farm to farm, harvest to harvest, Cesar had to attend 38 different schools until he