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Cesar Chavez
By Edgar J. Rubio
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Cesar Chavez Growing up

• There family never staid in the same place for a
  long time.His family owed a ranch and small
  grocery store, however in the 1930s, Chavez'
  father lost his business because of the Great
  Depression, then in 1933 they also lost their
  Ranch. There family could not stay with a lot of
  stuff because there family did not have enough
  money to support there needs.

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Cesar Chavez Education

• Cesar went to school but he had a hard time
  learning because his teacher did not allow
  Spanish in her class. Cesar hated school because
  other kids made fun of him for his language.
  When Cesar reach to the eight grade he quit
  school and work full-time in the vineyards.

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Work for Cesar Chavez

• Their wages were low and it was difficult to
  support there family with low money.
• There boss treated all Mexican with disrespect
  and without dignity
• Cesar had to sleep from street to street just to
  follow the fields so he would have enough money
  to make it in life.

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Cesar Chavez Fights back

• In 1965, the union issue finally exploded. The
  Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC),
  a mostly Filipino union, struck when the Delano
  grape growers cut the pay rates during the
  harvest. Chavez asked his organization to join
  the strike, and quickly became its leader.

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• The strikers faced odds that could not be
  overcome by traditional labor tactics. Under
  Chavez leadership, the struggle became defined
  in new terms. They would do battle non-violently,
  since they could never match the growers in
  physical force. They were a poor movement, so
  they would emphasize their poverty. For many
  years every organizer and volunteer from Chavez
  down would be paid room and board and 5 a week.
  Although there were picket lines in the fields,
  the real focus moved to the cities where grapes
  were sold.

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By Edgar J. Rubio
"Our union represents a breaking
away...represents sharing a power, represent
questioning, represents a new force...however
long it takes, we are geared for a struggle."
When we are really honest with ourselves we must
admit that our lives are all that really belong
to us, so it is how we use our lives that
determines what kind of men we are. It is my
deepest belief that only by giving life do we
find life, that the truest act courage, the
strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice
ourselves for others in a totally non-violent
struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer
for others, God help us to be men. Cesar Chavez