Cesar Chavez Influence

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An influence that made an impact throughout our historical events, and in my culture was Cesar Chavez . He is was a civil rights activist and a labor leader who fought for improving the working conditions and fair amount of pay for farm workers. He would lead marches called boycotts, and also did hunger strikes . Before he did all this he himself , with his family worked in the fields as farm workers. Cesar Chavez hardened by his experience and dedicated his life to improving the treatment with nonviolence . Cesar Chavez was a Mexican-American born in Yuma,Arizona coming from immigrant parents his family moved to California in 1938.After they moved him and his family would move around the state working in the fields . It was during this

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