Cesar Chavez Civil Rights Leader

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 ( ) 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.