Ceasar Chavez

Cesar Estrada Chavez founded and led the first successful farm workers’ union in history. When he passed away on April 23, 1993, he was president of the United Farm Workers.

i. Born March 31 1927 near Yuma, Arizona

ii. Age 10-father losses house and land.

iii. 1939 Settles to East San Jose (Sal Si Puedes)

iv. Worked fields in California. (Oxnard, Atascadero, King City, Salinas, Delano…)

B. Return to Sal Si Puedes- San Jose (1952)

i. Fred Ross- Organizer of CSO (Community Service Organization)

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Tried to convince CSO to commit to farm worker organizing

ii. From the beginning UFW carried principles of non-violence. 17 million American adults honored the boycott

a. Moved with family to La Paz, in Keene California. d economic discrimination against Chicano residence

c. Kennedy “one of the heroic figures of our time”

E. They came in caravans from Florida to California to pay respect to a man whose strength was in his simplicity.

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