Cesar Chavez

Fight of the Farm-workers: Cesar Chavez Many people (especially those who don’t live in or near the agricultural “promised lands” of California) just don’t understand what terrible living and working conditions immigrant farm-workers suffered under for so many years. Many of these laborers didn’t know there was an alternative. Many were happy to get this work, even at such a low wage as thirty-five cents an hour, and paid housing; a tent. …

…mostly ends in 1974; Cesar Chavez stayed actively involved up to his death in 1993. His accomplishments included receiving the Martin Luther King Nonviolent Peace Award from Coretta Scott King in 1974. The last twenty years of his life were spent mostly fighting legal battles defending farm workers’ rights, including the rights of workers handling produce sprayed with pesticides and insecticides. He can actually be considered the “Moses” that brought down “civil rights” for the migrant farm worker.