He was also jailed many times during his fight against terrible migrant worker conditions. His family had lived there since his grandfather immigrated from Mexico. His parents, Librado and Juana, owned a farm and store. Francis of Assisi and Mohandas Gandhi. He joined the Community Service Organization, an organization that worked for the rights of farm workers.
Chavez leads a mile march from Delano to Sacramento, California, to let the public and law-makers know about the mistreatment of farm workers. Chavez starts his first hunger strike; it lasts for 25 days in February and March it was done to stop violence against strikers. The California Labor Relations Act was passed; it was the first law that protected the rights of organizations of farm laborers.
Instead, Cesar turned down the job in exchange for a life of self-imposed poverty. Cesar embraced a life of voluntary poverty, as did other movement leaders and staff until the late s. When Cesar Chavez began building the farm worker movement, he knew it would take a strong union to remedy the economic injustices workers suffer at the workplace.
He also realized it would require a movement to overcome the burdens of poverty, discrimination and powerlessness people endured in the community. Cesar began a burial program, the first credit union for farm workers, health clinics, daycare centers and job-training programs. With the help of the movement, Cesar built affordable housing — starting with a retirement home for the elderly and displaced Filipino American farm workers and later, multi-family and homeownership communities for farm workers and other low-income working families and seniors.
He established two educational-style Spanish-language farm worker radio stations, the beginning of what is now the station Radio Campesina network. He also established the Fred Ross Education Institute which trained negotiators, contract administrators and union organizers. Cesar adopted historic strategies and tactics that were novel to organized labor.
He demanded farm workers strictly adhere to a pledge of nonviolence. His last and longest public fast, at 36 days, was in Delano when he was 61 years old, and focused public attention on the pesticide poisoning of farm workers and their children. Despite skepticism from some labor leaders, Cesar was the first to apply boycotts to major labor-management disputes.
Because of Cesar and millions of Americans who supported farm workers by boycotting grapes and other products, under Gov. Emma Tenayuca was an organizer and activist who fought for civil and labor rights for Mexican and Mexican American workers in San Antonio, Texas, in the s. Dolores Huerta is an activist and labor leader who co-founded what would become the United Farm Workers.
Larry Itliong was a Filipino American organizer and community leader who played an important role in the farm labor movement, including the Delano Grape Strike of the s. Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. Rockefeller and heir to his fortune. Bayard Rustin was a civil rights organizer and activist, best known for his work as adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.
Dorothy Height was a civil rights and women's rights activist focused primarily on improving the circumstances of and opportunities for African American women. Barry Goldwater was an American politician best known as a senator from Arizona and the Republican candidate for president in Union leader and labor organizer Cesar Chavez dedicated his life to improving treatment, pay and working conditions for farm workers.
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