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Title: Cesar Chavez Chronology


1
Cesar Chavez
Chronology
by
Jose Hernandez
2
Cesar Chavezs Introduction.
  • César Chávez (1927-1993), Mexican American labor
    leader and cofounder of the United Farm Workers
    of America (UFW) labor union. His work gained
    nationwide attention for migrant farmworkers and
    helped improve their working and living
    conditions.

3
About his life.
  • Chávez was born near Yuma, Arizona. During the
    Great Depression, his family lost their farm and
    became migrant farmworkers, moving from one place
    to another in search of work. Chávez was raised
    in migrant worker camps and left school after the
    eighth grade to work in the fields. He joined the
    U.S. Navy during World War II (1939-1945).

4
FOUNDING OF THE UNION
  • From 1952 until 1962, Chávez worked for the
    Community Service Organization, a Latino civil
    rights group. In 1962 Chávez and Dolores Huerta
    founded a farmworkers union, known as the
    National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). They
    hoped to establish a union that would provide
    field workers with better working and living
    conditions and change labor laws to give
    farmworkers more rights.

5
STRIKE FOR GRAPE PICKERS
  • In 1965 Chávez led 2,000 NFWA members on a strike
    in support of the Agricultural Workers Organizing
    Committee (AWOC) to demand better wages for
    wine-grape pickers in Delano, California.

6
LEGAL REFORM
  • In 1975 Chávez and his supporters pushed for
    passage of the California Agricultural Labor
    Relations Act. This law, the first of its kind in
    the United States, guaranteed farmworkers in
    California the right to join unions and bargain
    as a group. It also protected farmworkers from
    unfair labor practices.

7
LATER EFFORTS
  • Chávez continued to lead more boycotts in the
    1980s. However, he was criticized for not
    recruiting more union members, and the union lost
    much of its political influence. By the
    mid-1980s, membership in the UFW had dropped to
    about 15,000 people. In 1984 Chávez led the union
    in another grape boycott to rally public support
    against the use of pesticides. However, the
    boycott failed to generate much support.

8
DEATH AND HONORS
  • Chávez died in his sleep in 1993. In 1994
    President Bill Clinton posthumously awarded
    Chávez the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the
    nations highest civilian award. In 2000 the
    state of California declared March 31, Chávezs
    birthday, an official state holiday.
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