Essays on Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez For some reason or another, the time frame for the story of Cesar Chavez would seem more appropriate in the thirties rather than the sixties. Perhaps it is because most of us think that all that “labor stuff” happened in the thirties and…

César Chávez was born on March 31, 1927 into a Mexican-American family residing in Yuma, Arizona. The onset of the Great Depression 1929 stripped his parents of their farmland, forcing the whole family to submit to the toils of migrant farm work in the southwestern…

Cesar Chavez’ words, written specifically as a defense and propagation of the farm workers movement, give insight into the experience of minorities in agricultural California throughout the early 20th century. Cesar Chavez was a unique and charismatic leader of the farm workers movement of the…