Cesar Chavez

Senator Robert F. Kennedy viewed Cesar Chavez as “one of the heroic figures of our time.” Chavez is known to have been the first to found a successful workers’
union in US history. He created several labor unions
and gave hope to many Chicano families that arrived in
the United States looking for a better life. But upon
discovering that America wasn’t the dream that they
had imagined it to be, Chavez was able to help these
people realize some of that dream. Chavez
revolutionized the labor force and was the recipient
of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Cesar Estrada Chavez was born on March 31 in 1927, on
a small farm near Yuma, Arizona. This land was
homesteaded by his grandfather in the 1880’s.
Unfortunately, because of the depression and owing
$4,080 in back taxes, the Estrada family lost
possession of their family owned grocery store and
land. Two years later, they moved to California where
they joined thousands of other migrant families in the
fiel...