Cesar Chavez
Civil Rights Leader
Migrant Workers
These farmers leaned
over the fields for
twelve hours a day.
Migrant workers were
hated by many whites
because they were of
Mexican descent.
Most of the shacks had
no plumbing or
electricity. Some
camps are still this way.
Most homes had no
windows or doors;
nothing to protect
them from the
elements.
Cesar Chavez
(1927 - 1993)
• Chavez was born on a
farm in Arizona.
• He became a migrant
worker when he was
ten years old.
• He believed in using
nonviolence to achieve
justice for all farmers.
Cesar Chavez made the world a better
place without hurting anyone. This
method of protest is called
nonviolence. People who try to
change things this way go on marches,
strike and refuse to eat until their
demands are met.
Cesar E. Chavez, a Mexican American
labor leader, began to organize agricultural
workers in California during the 1960's. Chavez
established what is now the United Farm Workers
of America (UFW), a union of migrant workers
and other farm laborers.
On March 10, 1968, Cesar Chavez ended
his first hunger strike.