ceasr chavez
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- Leave or go to jail. You couldn't pay your taxes so the land is no longer yours.
- Cesar, Rita, let's go. This treatment is unfair. we won't work here.
- The creek your kids play in is dirty. The cops beat you up. Your paychecks are tiny.
- He seems to understand our problems.
- In 1937 times were hard for the Chavez family. Livrado Chavez could not afford to pay the taxes on his small farm in Arizona. At the time, the Great Depression had taken hold in the United States. Many Americans were poor and out of work.
- Ive never voted
- Its important for Latinos to vote. Only then will things change for us. Read this list of candidates the CSO supports.
- Growers hired contractors to oversee the farmworkers. Many of these bosses were greedy. They found ways to cheat workers out of money.
- In June 1952, an Anglo stranger named Fred Ross came to Cesar's home. Ross worked for a Latino civil rights group called the Community Service Organization (CSO). At first, Cesar and his friends didn't trust Ross.
- STRIKE
- VIVA LA CAUSA
- The next day, Cesar knocked on his neighbors' doors. He had agreed to work with the CSO. Cesar was good at organizing people. He soon started a CSO chapter in Sal Si Puedes and nearby towns. In 1959, Cesar became the executive director of the CSO, but left two years later.
- Cesar then decided to create his own union. He gathered many people and built a union known as the NFWA. He led the union along with Dolores Huerta and his brother, Richard Chavez.
- Cesar and the NFWA protested many companies and farms. Their protests resulted in workers gaining better pay, more breaks, and medical care. Cesar and his union continued to fight for farm workers until Cesar died in April 1993.
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