Early in his childhood, it seemed as though Chavez would live the difficult life of searching for job opportunities as a migrant farm worker. He was born on March 31, 1927 on a farm near Yuma, Arizona. The Chavez family was struck extremely ha

With success in their first two confrontations, the UFWOC faced even more challenges in the mid-1970s. In 1972, Arizona governor John Williams signed anti-union laws which greatly affected the UFWOC. When asked about the law and its affects on the Mexican-Americans, Williams stated that according to him, they did not even exist (Rodriguez 94). Chavez responded with a twenty-four day fast which nearly killed him. Cesar emphasized that he was fasting principally "out of a deep conviction that [they could] communicate to people, either those who [were] for [them] or against [them], faster and more effectively spiritually than [they could] in any other way" (Rodriguez 94). UFWOC members petitioned and went from door to door in Arizona to protest the law. While they were unsuccessful, their actions led to the election of the first Mexican-American governor, Raul Castro. In 1975, the Agricultural Labor Relations Act was passed in California. This act allowed farm workers to decide whether they would be represented by the United Farm Workers (UFW), the new name for the UFWOC, the Teamsters, or neither. The UFW won the role by a sizable margin, but in 1977, they merged with the Teamsters. In 1983, however, the Teamsters refused to renew their pact with the UFW and reserved the right to resume their rivalry in the future.

rd by the Great Depression of 1929, and like so many other Americans at the time, they lost their farm and business and possessed little money. After his family had a brief stay at Cesar's grandfather's house, Cesar's father took them to California in search of work. They were no different than the 300,000 other Americans who had lost their land to depression and were now condemned to the life of the migrant worker.

As a migrant farm worker, Cesar's childhood was disrupted and limited to activities that would help the family's survival. Because the job involved constant movement from farm to farm, Cesar was in and out of schools until eighth grade, when he withdrew permanently. The first job Cesar and his family procured was pea-picking for a minor company in Half Moon Bay, California. They spent two hours walking long rows and bending at the waist to fill hampers with peas. After another hour of sorting and weighing, the entire family made a total of twenty cents. Following twelve hours of work each day, the Chavez family went back to their tent where they nearly starved to death on several occasions. At the age of seventeen, Cesar felt that he needed to escape his job as a

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