Cesar Chavez: A True Hero

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I would meet Cesar Chavez he is a true hero to me. He made a great difference for the agricultural workers at the time and his accomplishments still affect us today. He was not only a Latino American civil rights activist he was also supported by the American labor movement. My father for years was a migrant worker and I am glad that Cesar Chavez made the difference that he did. Chavez protested and boycotted companies and industries that did not pay workers enough, treated them unfairly, and had poor working conditions. Cesar Chavez was young when he became a migrant worker in farms, he had gone through the conditions himself, he knew just how important it was for farm workers to work in healthy safe conditions and decided he was going

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