How Did Cesar Chavez Impact Society

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Cesar Chavez Our world today was shaped from the historical actions of activists like Cesar Chavez. There are many inspirational and historical activists, some change a nation, a town or even the whole world, but what they all have in common is their strive and passion to make a difference whether the impact is big or small. Many people find and get inspiration from these people which makes them want to make a difference and creates a snowball effect. In no way was it never easy to try and change a nation and start a movement, there’s always a battle but how the battle is fought is what determines the outcome of their fight for change. Chavez was an inspiration to many and his strive for change impacted our history and influenced how …show more content…

He also was introduced to Fred Ross who saw something in Chavez and recruited him to work for their organization, the Community Service Organization. Within the next couple years, Chavez ended up becoming the national director but ended up resigning in 1962 because he wanted to focus more on organizing a union for farm workers. Around September, 1965, the Farm Workers Association decided to join a strike that was initiated by the Filipino farm workers that worked in the grape fields. Next thing Chavez knew, a couple months later his union was nationally known. “Chavez’s drawing on the imagery of the civil rights movement, his insistence on nonviolence, his reliance on volunteers from urban universities and religious organizations… and his use of mass mobilizing techniques such as a famous march...brought the grape strike and consumer boycott into the national consciousness” (Cesar Chavez). Chavez had strategic ways of promoting his movement in a nonviolent way so that his points could be proven in a good way. “The Fast” was the reason that growers started to realize the United Farm Workers which is what Chavez wanted all along, he had a vision of what the union movement could actually be and made a drastic decision on starting a fast that lasted 36 days. He recognized …show more content…

But other that the United Farm Workers organization that wasn’t the only achieved gains for Mexican and Mexican American farm workers, the Juan de la Cruz Pension Plan was the first and only working pension plan for retired farm workers. Chavez also established the first union medical benefits for the farm workers and their families, and it paid out more that 250 million dollars for benefits. Cesar Estrada Chavez died in his sleep on April 23, 1988, he was honored the very next day by over 50,000 who marched at his first public fast and to his last as a sign for saying thank you to their charismatic

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