Cesar Chávez
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- Biography
- The Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez dedicated his life’s work to what he called la causa (the cause): the struggle of farm workers in the United States to improve their working and living conditions through organizing and negotiating contracts with their employers.
- Hi I am Cesar Estrada Chavez I was born in 1927
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- My wife was Helen Fabela , and we had 8 children
- In the late 1930s, after losing their homestead to foreclosure, he and his family joined more than 300,000 people who moved to California during the Great Depression and became migrant farm workers.
- I was an american civil right activist and labor leader.
- My family lost the homestead in the great depression and we have to moved to california
- During his life, Chavez learned a lot specially when he was related with a civil right group. There he understood the importance to stop hide to defend the civil righst as mexicoamerican citicenzs.
- sign up to have rights to vote
- Let´s register
- First union contracts requiring rest periods, clean drinking water, hand washing stations and protective clothing against pesticide exposure. First health benefits for farm workers and families. On August 8 1994, his family received Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bill Clinton.
- UFW
- I was co-founder of the Unitend Farm Workers Association in 1962 with Delores Huerta.
- Huelga
- ¡Huelga!
- on 1970s the UFW organized the Salad Bowl "strike" where thousand of dollars were lost.
- Salad bowl
- Chavez was impresoned because he was the líder on this boycott.
- He died on April 23, 1993, at the age of 66.
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