Cesar Chavez a great man that changed the many injustices done to immigrate field workers, injustices like minimum wage, long work hours, and living conditions. We will learn how marches, strikes, and fasting help them conquer the changes they wanted. How he started the union. We will read what a great legacy he left behind, and how now a day his legacy lives on. What kind of legacy will we leave behind? That is why we have to help people we come in contact with, to show our children to help other, be humble and love each other. Cesar Chavez (AFL-CIO) was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma Arizona. He became a migrant worker at the age of ten. As a young boy Chavez worked in this family farm feeding and giving water to the animals, collecting …show more content…
The reason being is that he remembered all the injustice being committee to the immigrant’s workers and children. The working and living conditions was so bad for the field workers, sometimes they had to live in their car and if they did get housing in immigrant’s labor camp it was very small, it was one small room for a family of five or six. The field worker’s family would work up to fifteen hours a day for minimum wage with no over time, no health insurance benefits. Chavez later went on his own and organize United Farm Workers (UFW); they design a flag for their union, a black eagle in the middle with red color on the outside with his own money of $900, he stared this in his hometown of Delano California. He stared traveling from farm to farm to get worker to join his union. In 1965 Chavez did his first march with 300 people, they march from Delano to Sacramento it took them 25 days to reach Sacramento. They were joined by 10,000 people. They continue to do march and strikes; Chavez was against violence during all his marches and strikes. Chavez tries to negotiate with Gallo and Christian Bros, but to no use they did not want to change things. In 1968, production in the grapes dropped from 90% to 12% nationwide, due to the ongoing strikes. In 1970 Chavez stared fasting and the growers stared to sigh with the union to give the workers better pay and better leaving conditions. In …show more content…
Chavez leaves a great legacy behind his children that have taken upon themselves to keep on fighting for what their dad believes was to keep helping the immigrant field worker. His foundation has built a lot of training school. The march and strikes are still done today to keep on fighting for injustices done to people. The union is still up. Chavez children run it.
I have shown what a great man Cesar Chavez was how he brought changes to the immigrant field worker. He and a lot of immigrant worker, worked hard for what they believe was injustices to them and their families; the low pay, the long hours worked with no overtime, and no health benefits, by going on strikes, marches, and fasting. At the end it did pay off everything they went through brought better paying jobs, better working conations. Chavez left us with a famous quote “Si se puede” Yes we can. With hard work and determination everything is
Chavez had a harsh childhood, he had toil over work since he was a young child. This hero experienced the event himself; the passage shows his parents lost their land and farm, so all the family had to work hard all day being exposed to the scorching sun for unfair wages they needed to survive. Chavez's speech clearly stated the
After having read and watched the video about Cesar Chavez’s union, I gained an understanding about his long struggle to gain rights for field workers. But after having attended the event “What I learned about Cesar Chavez” I even gained a better understanding about how Cesar Chavez accomplished what he did. Throughout Grossman's lecture I was able to form several connections to what I learned from the book. Grossman spoke about Cesar Chavez’s determination and ability to inspire others. These characteristics inspired me to fight for what I believe in.
The Mexican-American Cesar Chavez has changed the lives of many people. He was a kind man who devoted his life into helping people. He was a great union leader and labor organizer. Chavez’s parents taught him about the important ideas of hard work, the importance of education, and about respect. Cesar Chavez had a positive social impact on the United States during the twentieth century because he changed the lives of many farm laborers in America.
In 1938, the Chavez family lost their farm due to the Great Depression. They were forced to relocate to California and become migrant workers. Chavez was distressed by the poor treatment that migrant farmworkers endured on a daily basis. His powerful religious convictions, dedication to change, and a skill at non violent organizing cultivated the establishment of the United Farmworkers (UFW). It was also referred to as “La Causa” by supporters and eventually became a vital movement for self-determination in the lives of California's farmworkers. The astounding nationwide lettuce and grape boycotts along with public support revealed the atrocities of California agribusiness and resulted in the first union hiring halls and collective bargaining for migrant workers. The details of the childhood of Cesar Chavez and how they would later shape his actions are a vital aspect of this book and the establishment of the farm workers movement.
Since 1962, Chavez created and maintained a union for farm workers called the United Farm Workers of America. He went through many hard times and had to make very hard decisions but nothing stopped him from giving up on his dreams to help other people. In Document A, Dick Meister talks about how he saw the UFW through his point of view, a highly skeptical reporter from San Francisco. He says ...
Chávez’s leadership was based on an unshakable commitment to nonviolence, personal sacrifice and a strict work ethic. He emphasized the necessity of adhering to nonviolence, even when faced with violence from employers and growers, because he knew if the strikers used violence to further their goals, the growers and police would not hesitate to respond with even greater vehemence. Despite his commitment to nonviolence, many of the movement’s ‘enemies’, so to speak, made efforts to paint the mo...
Even though, this is a fictional book, it tells a true story about the struggle of the farm worker to obtain a better life for themselves and their families. There are two main themes in this book, non-violence, and the fight for dignity. Cesar Chavez was a non-violent man who would do anything to not get in a fight while they where boycotting the growers. One, incident in the story was when a grower pulled out a gun, and he pointed it at the strikers, Chavez said, “He has a harder decision to make, we are just standing here in peace…” The picketer were beaten and put in jail before they would fight back and that is what why all farm workers look up to Cesar Chavez , along with his good friend Martin Luther King Jr. Non-Violence is the only way to solve anything. The growers in that time did not care about their workers, if people were striking, the growers would go to Mexico and bring in Braceros, mean that they would not have to sign the union contract and not take union workers, who were willing to work if the grower would sign the contract.
It is crucial to have an awareness of the early beginnings of his life in order to understand Cesar Chavez’s development into becoming the celebrated leader he is known as today. One of the noteworthy aspects of his life is that he was not what some would consider a “natural-born” leader, meaning that he was not born into a family of great wealth or power. Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 near the town of Yuma, Arizona to a humble, hardworking Mexican immigrant family. His grandfather, Cesario Chavez, for whom he was named after, had worked hard to save enough money to be able to buy land in Arizona and raise his thirteen children, which included Cesar’s father. His father, Librado Chavez, grew up, got married, and opened up a couple of small businesses to help provide for his family and build a better life for his own children. According to biographical accounts about Cesar, this is when and where he began to learn and...
Chavez was greatly supported the idea of equality the he “gained national stature as a labor union spokesman” with all the action he would take not only in his community but others as well. He was such an influential person that the people of the US Senate offered him to” have a testimony during an US Senate subcommittee hearing” . While he is there he lets the people know how these migrant farm workers are being treated and what people are able to do to help. His actions that he took changed US History by letting the people know what and how the migrant workers are treated.
Through the years, individuals have shown that a single man can make a difference. Men who, when committed to a cause, will rise up with honor, integrity, and courage. Cesar Chavez was such a man. He represented the people and rose above his self concerns to meet the needs of the people. Cesar Chavez showed us that, “The highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.” He lived by this standard and fought freedom with the highest form of dignity and character.
Chavez and Hoffa were highly successful. The differences in their methods and approaches, should not lessen the incredible feats that they achieved for the workers that they worked with and for the workers of today. Their personalities and approaches are what led to them being two of the most remarkable union organizers and leaders of the
Cesar Chavez, one man who dramatically changed the world said, “From the depth of need despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems, and fill their own needs with dignity and strength” (ufw.org). This quote means several things. We can’t all make a difference on our own, so we need to work together, as a whole. This also means that we can organize our own problems to figure it out. It also says that we can fill our own wishes with quality and power. Chavez was an important figure in American History because he stood up for what he believed in, and wanted. In some peoples’ view, Chavez will always be a genuine hero.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy described him as “one of the heroic figures of our time” (Cesar Chavez Foundation). This shows that Cesar Chavez made a difference in people’s lives, including Senator Robert’s. Some people may say that immigrants are bad people but Cesar Chavez was an immigrant himself yet, also a hero to the country. Experts say he was an American farm worker, labor leader, and a civil rights activist. This shows that he fought for what he believed in. Being a farm worker wasn’t something he planned on doing but he had no choice because he was an immigrant. He saw how cruel Americans were treating immigrants so he fought for their rights. He spoke for all the immigrants everywhere. The Cesar Chavez Foundation mentioned that at age 11, his family lost their farm during the great depression and became migrant farm workers. This shows how and why Cesar Chavez fought for farmworkers rights. He grew up not having the best childhood but he took others lives into consideration and fought for them to have a better and brighter
One of the greatest civil rights activists of our time; one who believed the ways of Gandhi and Martin Luther King that “violence can only hurt us and our cause” (Cesar Chavez); a quiet, devoted, small catholic man who had nothing just like those he help fight for; “one of America's most influential labor leaders of the late twentieth century” (Griswold del Castillo); and one “who became the most important Mexican-American leader in the history of the United States” (Ender). Cesar Chavez; an American farm worker, who would soon become the labor leader that led to numerous improvements for union workers; it is recorded that Chavez was born near Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927 and died on April 23, 1993 in San Luis, Arizona. (Wikipedia) His life affected many others as his unselfish deeds changed the labor union force forever. This essay will discuss the reasons Cesar Chavez became involved in Union rights, the immediate impact he had, and also the legacy he left behind with his actions that influenced American society.
The food we enjoy every day comes at a cost, and could stop being produced in an instant. Caesar Chavez knew of this problem and devoted his life to fixing it. Farmers across the United States suffer from unequal treatment. Chavez has worked to improve the financial, medical, and labor standards for all farmers regardless of race, or social standing.