Cesar Chavez

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Cesar Chavez was an activist who fought for farmworkers and Mexicans who worked in harsh conditions for little pay everywhere in America. Cesar Chavez was the founder of NFWA which was later changed and became UFW. Cesar did many things and was recognized as a hero nationwide and in these following paragraphs you'll see why.

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Cesar Estrada Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927, and died April 23, 1993 and was buried in San Luis, Arizona. Cesar his whole life wanted to change and help improve the working conditions of farm workers. As a child, Cesar and his family worked in the farms as a child and knew the conditions were horrible. From then on, he knew he wanted to help and relieve farm workers everywhere.

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After working as a community and labor organizer in the 1950s, Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962.(NFWA) This union along with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee came together in their first strike against grape growers in California in 1965. One year later, these two unions merged, and the new union was renamed the United Farm Workers in 1972.(UFW)

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Cesar Chavez as a labor leader went on several boycotts, led marches to Congress to change laws and bills, and went on several hunger strikes to prove and make his point known. It's believed his hunger strikes contributed to his death in 1993. In early 1968, Chavez called for a national boycott of California table grape growers. Chavez's battle with the grape growers for improved compensation and labor conditions lasted for years. At the end, Chavez and his union won several victories for the workers when many growers signed contracts with the union.
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Cesar Chavez faced many other obstacles with other stubborn growers and certain people who didn't care about farm working conditions. As a labor leader, Chavez employed nonviolent means to bring attention to the ways and conditions of farm workers. Later on his wife was presented with The Presidential Medal of Freedom in Cesar Estrada Chavez name. So at the end of the day I still say Cesar Estrada Chavez is my hero.