A Brief Synopsis Of The Organizer's Tale By Cesar Chavez

Arguably one of the most prominent and successful figures that came out of the 1960’s Chicano Movement was United Farm Workers union creator and leader, Cesar Chavez. Born into a family of migrating farm workers, Chavez was a first generation Mexican-American community organizer who was able to create and run one of the most successful farmworker’s union despite all odds. In an autobiography “The Organizer's Tale,” by Cesar Chavez and an article “Cesar's Ghost: Decline and Fall of the U.F.W,” by Frank Bardacke provide an insight on Chavez’s work as a community organizer both in the Community Service Organization, or CSO, and the Catholic church. Through his work for the CSO and the Catholic social justice movement, Chavez was supplied with various tools

Chavez began his journey in community organizing as a shy young man who was not well educated but under the influence of Ross he learned ways to get people involved with his causes. Chavez explained that one of the things he learned was if he wanted to convince someone he had to dedicate the time to them, educated or not, all that mattered was a display of interest. This was exactly what Ross had done earlier with Chavez when they first met back in San Jose, California when he was working on an apricot farm. The dedication of teaching interested people would be useful in developing the farmworker’s union as it would teach farm workers to become leaders as Chavez had become. He states when recruiting a farmworker you have to both tell them the idea and explain it in away they would understand because they do not have the time to figure to how to play politics. In the long run it would be more effective to spend some time trying to convince someone then to just have them accept because they would end up being