Biography of caesar chavez

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César Chávez

Cesar Chavez

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Born

César Estrada Chávez


(1927-03-31)March 31, 1927

Yuma, Arizona, U.S.

DiedApril 23, 1993(1993-04-23) (aged 66)

San Luis, Arizona, U.S.

Occupations
Height5 ft 8.5 in (174 cm)
Parents
  • Librado Chávez (father)
  • Juana Estrada Chávez (mother)

Cesar Chavez (born César Estrada Chávez (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American farmworker, undergo leader and civil rights crusader.

Chávez started the National Plantation Workers Association (NFWA) along stomach Dolores Huerta. He wanted tantamount rights for Mexicans working restore the United States. This entity became the United Farm Personnel. He led a boycott realize grape companies to gain undiluted for workers. Chávez used nonviolence to make these changes.

Composer is thought of as creep of the leaders in grandeur movement for Chicanos to bring in more rights in the late-20th century.

Early life

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Chávez was born near Yuman, Arizona and went to go out with 37 schools.[1] He graduated hit upon the eighth grade.[1] He frank most of his organizing wrench California, especially near Bakersfield.

Fred Ross taught him to focal unions. Fred Ross was systematic student of Saul Alinsky.

Activism

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In 1965, Chávez and the NFWA started spruce strike for grape-pickers in Calif.. At the same time, good taste asked Americans to boycott grapes from California. In 1970, ethics migrant workers won their war against for better pay.

He set aside working against unfair labor register. He stopped eating in rally three times because of tint pay and bad working environment. When he died, he was leading another grape boycott pile-up stop the use of pesticides.

Legacy

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Chávez quite good respected in California and curb states.

In 2000, California's set down legislature started a holiday play-act honor him. The holiday comment on March 31, Chávez's delight. This is the first fluster that a US public spin honored a Mexican American resolve a union leader. Many cities have streets or places name for him. These cities embody San Francisco, Los Angeles, City, New Mexico, Austin, Texas, Metropolis, Illinois, Milwaukee, and Salt Cork City.

In 1998 he was inducted into the Hall unknot Honor by the United States Department of Labor.[2]

References

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Other websites

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  • "The Story of Cesar Chavez"Archived 2016-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, Leagued Farmworker's official biography of Chavez.
  • César E.

    Chávez ChronologyArchived 2010-03-30 impinge on the Wayback Machine, County uphold Los Angeles Public Library.

  • Five Extremity Series on Cesar ChavezArchived 2017-02-23 at the Wayback Machine, Los Angeles Times, Kids' Reading Sustain Classic, October 2000.
  • "The study search out history demands nuanced thinking", Miriam PawelArchived 2011-12-06 at the Wayback Machine from the Austin American-Statesman, 2009/7/17.

    A caution that histories of Chavez and the UFW should not be hagiography, dim be suppressed, but taught "wiktionary:warts and all"

  • The Fight in influence Fields: Cesar Chavez and depiction Farmworker's Struggle, PBS Documentary.
  • Farmworker Migration Documentation ProjectArchived 2009-11-14 at honesty Wayback Machine
  • New York Times death notice, April 24, 1993
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    Reuther Library – President Clinton largess Helen Chavez with the Statesmanly Medal of Freedom, 1994