Cesar was born on March 31, He was named after his grandfather, Cesario. He learned about justice or rather injustice early in his life. Cesar grew up in Arizona; the small adobe home, where Cesar was born was swindled from them by dishonest Anglos.
The agreement was broken and the land sold to a man named Justus Jackson. Cesar learned a lesson about injustice that he would never forget.
Later, he would say, The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.
In he and his family moved to California. He lived in La Colonia Barrio in Oxnard for a short period, returning to Arizona several months later. They returned to California in June and this time settled in San Jose. He did not like school as a child, probably because he spoke only Spanish at home. The teachers were mostly Anglo and only spoke English.
Spanish was forbidden in school. He remembers being punished with a ruler to his knuckles for violating the rule. He also remembers that some schools were segregated and he felt that in the integrated schools he was like a monkey in a cage. He remembers having to listen to a lot of racist remarks. He remembers seeing signs that read whites only.
He and his brother, Richard, attended thirty-seven schools. In he graduated from the eighth grade. Because his father, Librado, had been in an accident and because he did not want his mother, Juana, to work in the fields, he could not to go to high school, and instead became a migrant farm worker. While his childhood school education was not the best, later in life, education was his passion. He joined the U. Navy, which was then segregated, in , at the age of 19, and served for two years.
In Cesar married Helen Fabela. They honeymooned in California by visiting all the California Missions from Sonoma to San Diego again the influence of education. They settled in Delano and started their family. First Fernando, then Sylvia, then Linda, and five more children were to follow. They talked about farm workers and strikes. Cesar began reading about St. Francis and Gandhi and nonviolence.
His first task was voter registration. He was joined by Dolores Huerta and the union was born. Cesar told the story of the birth of the eagle. He asked Richard to design the flag, but Richard could not make an eagle that he liked. Martin Luther King, Jr. Desmond Tutu. Muhammad Yunus. Youth for Human Rights. Human Rights Organizations. Human Rights Commissions. Human Rights Challenges. Human Rights Reports. The Story of Human Rights booklet. First Name. Last Name. Email Address. At the end, Chavez and his union won several victories for the workers when many growers signed contracts with the union.
He faced more challenges through the years from other growers and the Teamsters Union. All the while, he continued to oversee the union and work to advance his cause. As a labor leader, Chavez employed nonviolent means to bring attention to the plight of farm workers.
He led marches, called for boycotts and went on several hunger strikes. He also brought the national awareness to the dangers of pesticides to workers' health. His dedication to his work earned him numerous friends and supporters, including Robert Kennedy and Jesse Jackson. It is believed that Chavez's hunger strikes contributed to his death: He died on April 23, , in San Luis, Arizona. In , U. President Barack Obama announced that Chavez's birthday, March 31, would be recognized as a federal commemorative holiday.
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