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Cesar Chavez Timeline 1 - Timeline Help
Cesar Chavez Timeline part 1 of 4 from 1927 to 1962 at Timeline Help. Chavez was a Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist. Also he is one of the major founders of the National Farm Workers Association, later called the United Farm Workers of the Unites States of America. Read how he advocates his labor ideas and ideals in almost half a century with non-violent strikes, negotiations, picketing, boycotts, marches, and fasts, in order to achieve a better life and improvements for thousands of farm workers and their families in this Cesar Chavez timeline.
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- 1952 -1962
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- 1962 | César Estrada Chávez born in Yuma, Arizona, son of Juana and Librado Chavez.
Baptized. Congress of Industrial Organizations CIO founded.
The National Labor Relations Act to protect workers' rights; it enables them to organize labor unions, and to take part in strikes.
During the The Great Depression father Librado loses all: his land, farm and store.
Graduates from 8th grade. Becomes a farm worker to help his family, and takes his father's place, who was injured in a car accident.
Detained for one hour by the police for refusing to take a seat in the special Mexican people section in a local movie theater in Delano, California.
Serves for the US Navy in the Pacific during World War II.
Returns to Delano. Joins the National Agricultural Workers Union.
Joins the National Farm Workers Labor Union NFLU. Marries Helen Favela, and they move to San Jose, California, later they have eight children. Works at a farm and at a lumber mill.
Fred Ross recruits Chavez for the Community Service Organization in San Jose, California. The CSO fights for social justice and agianst racial and economic discrimination. Becomes the community leader. Meets Catholic priest Father Donald McDonnell, who inspires Cesar to study social teachings of Saint Francis of Assisi and Mahatma Ghandi.
Organizes more than twenty Latino CSO chapters in California to fight for their civil rights. This event in my Cesar Chavez timeline marks the beginning of a life full of activism.
Donald McDonnell, Thomas McCullough and Dolores Huerta together found the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee AWOC. Chavez becomes CSO executive director in Los Angeles.
Organizes strikes, sit-ins, marches, and a boycott of merchants in Oxnard to protest unemployment for local residents and the Farm Placement Service policy.
Quits the CSO. Moves to Delano. Founds the National Farm Worker Association NFWA, to fight for and to protect minimum wages, and financial security. Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla vice-presidents, Antonio Orendain secretary-treasurer.
| Bibliography of Cesar Chavez Timeline 1 Hikmes, B (1994). American Troublemakers. Farm Worker Activist.
Etulain, R W (2002). A Brief Biography with Documents. The Bedford Series in History and Culture.
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