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Cesar Chavez lived in poverty for 11 years with his parents, in Arizona, Went broke in order to survive him and his family became migrant workers.
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Cesar moved a lot following the California crops, Ages 11-15 he had attended more than 30 schools. He always got made fun of because of his Mexican accent, so he never really made friends.
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At this time 300,000 migrant workers were in California. The workers worked really hard but did nit earn much money because the growers refused to pay the migrant workers fair wadges.
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Cesar was 21 years old when he got married to a girl named Helen.four years later he landed his first steady job as a staff member of the community service organization. It was a group dedicated to protecting the civil rights of Mexican Americans
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By 1962 Helen had eight children they were not rich but they had enough to pay the bills, they had a few hundred bills in the bank
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Cesar quit his job and his fellow workers officially founded the union. they traveled 15,000 miles picking peas and staking grapes trying to win over the workers.
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UFWA stands for united farmer workers association. They were about to take on a powerful enemy.
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Cesar started a Boycott of California grapes to try and get the public to stop buying grapes as a show of support for the workers.
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The workers were getting desperate for food and money and started talking violence, so Cesar went on a fast for 25 days to try and talk the workers out of violence
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In 1970 the California grape growers gave in they accepted and signed the first union contracts with farm workers.
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Cesar had died in the middle of fighting for all the other migrant workers. He tried really hard and believed he could accomplish anything. Today schools are named after him and he has his own day to celebrate everything he did.
