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    In Honor of Cesar E. Chavez

    Cesar E. Chavez,

    An American Hero

    Cesar Estrada Chavez, Senator Robert F. Kennedy noted, was "one of the heroic figures of our time.."

    A true American hero, Cesar was a civil rights, Latino, farm worker, and labor leader; a religious and spiritual figure; a community servant and social entrepreneur; a crusader for nonviolent social change; and an environmentalist and consumer advocate.

    A second-generation American, Cesar was born on March 31, 1927, near his family's farm in Yuma, Arizona. At age 10, his family became migrant farm workers after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Throughout his youth and into his adulthood, Cesar migrated across the southwest laboring in the fields and vineyards, where he was exposed to the hardships and injustices of farm worker life.

    After achieving only an eighth-grade education, Cesar left school to work in the fields full-time to support his family. He attended more than 30 elementary and middle school

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    Cesar Chavez

    American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist (1927–1993)

    For other uses, see Cesar Chavez (disambiguation).

    Cesario Estrada Chavez (; Spanish:[ˈtʃaβes]; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and lesser known Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union. Ideologically, his worldview combined left-wing politics with Catholic social teachings.

    Born in Yuma, Arizona, to a Mexican-American family, Chavez began his working life as a manual laborer before spending two years in the U.S. Navy. Relocating to California, where he married, he got involved in the Community Service Organization (CSO), through which he helped laborers lista to vote. In 1959, he became the CSO's national director, a position based inom

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    United We Stand

    Vocabulary

    • environmentalist (en-vahy-ruh n-men-tl-ist (noun) someone who works to protect the air, water, animals, plants, and other natural resources from pollution  
    • migrant farm workers (my-gruh nt) (noun) farm workers who move from place to place to get work, especially those who harvests crops seasonally 
    • prejudice (prej-uh-dis) (noun) an unfavorable opinion about an ethnic, racial, or religious group formed without knowledge or reason 
    • union (yoon-yuh n) (noun)  a number of persons, states, etc., joined or associated together for some common purpose 
    • United Farm Workers (noun) a group founded by César Chávez in 1962, organizing agricultural workers, many of whom were Mexican-Americans, also referred to as UFW, a labor union for farm workers in the United States

     

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