Cesar Chavez

Many people (especially those who don’t live in or near the agricultural “promised lands” of California) just don’t understand what terrible living and working conditions immigrant farm-workers suffered under for so many years. Many of these laborers didn’t know there was an alternative. Many were happy to get this work, even at such a low wage as thirty-five cents an hour, and paid housing; a tent. That is until a man named Cesar Chavez came along. Chavez, by many, is considered the “Moses” of the West Coast migrant farm-workers. At the risk of personal safety, as well that of his family, Mr. Chavez fought “the boss”, as farm owners and supervisors--mostly white were known, and organized these suppressed workers under one name, the United Farm Worker’s Union; possibly the most well known union story of the twentieth century. So, how did it evolve? First, let’s show the history of Cesar Chavez.

Chavez, a product of a depression era migrant childhood, knew what suffering was all about. He grew up in primarily in Arizona. His grandparents escaped the “feudal hacienda system” in Mexico; basically an indentured servant system, where the “peons” who were at the lowest rung of the co

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