cesar chavez
INTRO: Thanks to all the efforts of this man and all of those who stood behind him and followed his footsteps he was able to not only help millions of farm workers finally receive improvements in the conditions that they faced such as harsh working conditions, poor treatment and long hours but also was able to achieve all of this without ever clenching his fists. I’m talking about Cesar Chavez.
BODY: Cesar Chavez was born on March 31,1927 in a small town in the north gila river valley outside Yuma Arizona. Sadly at a young age his family lost all of their land during the great depression and were forced to move to California and become migrant farm workers. When Cesar reached the 7th grade he decided that he was going to drop out of school and become a full time migrant worker to take the place of this mother because he no longer wanted his mother to suffer as a migrant worker, he worked in the fields until 1952. Soon after he became an organizer for the community service organization and continued to climb his way up the ladder until he became the president of the united farm workers of America where he led the very first successful farm workers union. All of his life he had been exposed to the horrible treatment that farm workers received and he knew that this had been going on for too long and that there needed to be a change he was also aware that the position he had of being a president was not only going to help him achieve the dream he had to stop unjust treatment on field workers but also to protect our green space by restricting the use of pesticides that were used in the fields so families living in disadvantaged communities could breathe in clean air and drink safe water. Cesar had many great characteristics that everyone can look up too, personally what I admire in him is that even after being let down several times he never gave up on what he wanted he always found inner strength within himself to keep going. My grandfather was one of the
BODY: Cesar Chavez was born on March 31,1927 in a small town in the north gila river valley outside Yuma Arizona. Sadly at a young age his family lost all of their land during the great depression and were forced to move to California and become migrant farm workers. When Cesar reached the 7th grade he decided that he was going to drop out of school and become a full time migrant worker to take the place of this mother because he no longer wanted his mother to suffer as a migrant worker, he worked in the fields until 1952. Soon after he became an organizer for the community service organization and continued to climb his way up the ladder until he became the president of the united farm workers of America where he led the very first successful farm workers union. All of his life he had been exposed to the horrible treatment that farm workers received and he knew that this had been going on for too long and that there needed to be a change he was also aware that the position he had of being a president was not only going to help him achieve the dream he had to stop unjust treatment on field workers but also to protect our green space by restricting the use of pesticides that were used in the fields so families living in disadvantaged communities could breathe in clean air and drink safe water. Cesar had many great characteristics that everyone can look up too, personally what I admire in him is that even after being let down several times he never gave up on what he wanted he always found inner strength within himself to keep going. My grandfather was one of the