For thirty years Cesar Chavez devoted himself to the problems of some of the poorest workers in America and helped them through all the discrimination that’s why he is an important figure in american history. Chavez organized strikes, he would also had marches for pretty long distance. Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma, Arizona. He grew up in a small farm that was originally was settled by his grandfather in the late 1800’s. Their land was repossessed during the great depression in the 1930’s. Due to the repossession of their land they were forced to move throughout the southwest seeking for work. Then Cesar was forced to drop out of school at the age of 10 in order to support his family during the crisis. Beginning in 1945, Chavez served in the United States Navy for two years. When he return from World War II, he met Helen Fabela a fellow laborer and the couple got married then moved to San Jose, California and Cesar started studying books on labor history while working odd jobs as a laborer. As an organizer and later …show more content…
For thirty years Chavez tenaciously devoted himself to the problems of some of the poorest workers in America. The movement he inspired succeeded in raising salaries and improving working conditions for the farm workers in California, Texas, Arizona, and Florida. In recognition of his lifetime of dedication to working American families, Chavez was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S., in 1994. That year, the UFW, under the leadership of Chavez’s son-in-law Arturo Rodriguez, recreated the historic 1966 march of its fallen leader from Delano to Sacramento. These honors, along with the creation of the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, have ensured that the vision and ideals of Cesar Chavez will be remembered for generations to