By the early 1950s, he was introduced to organizers in the Community Services Organization, and by the late '50s he had become its national president.īy the early 1960s, Chavez already was in full dispute with the moneyed growers who saw him and his swelling group of followers as a threat to their financial well-being. Navy after the end of World War II, before it was desegregated, but soon returned to California, where he started a family of his own. He never got past eighth grade.Ĭhavez enlisted in the U.S. He estimated that he attended 65 different schools as a kid. He and many others commonly worked 10- to 12-hour days, often bent over a short-handled hoe - el cortito - for wages that would barely keep them alive. The child of Mexican American parents, Chavez was born in 1927 in Yuma, Arizona, into the back-wrecking life of a migrant farm family in the Southwest United States.
And to this day, Cesar Chavez remains a darling of America's counterculture, a soft-spoken, sly-smiling, immovable object standing in the path of the country's rich and powerful.
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