Cesar Chavez: Koo From Organizer Of The Chicano Movement

Cruz, Adrian. The union within the union: Filipinos, Mexicans, and the racial integration of the farm worker movement, 17 August 2015, http://dx.doi.org/1. This website critically analyzes how Filipinos and Mexicans resolved a deeply rooted racial division that built a successful path to farm labor mobilization. The article states that “Twentieth-century California experienced two periods of extended farm labor agitation” and during this time there were 180 documented strikes that occurred in the state. Nevertheless, the 1960s witnessed a well-known successful farm worker mobilization led by the United Farm Workers of America. Moreover, farm labor activism was not entirely dormant within the Bracero years. Two farm worker organizations formed

From Organizer of the Farm Workers’ Movement to the Spiritual Symbol of the Chicano Movement, 29 July 2011, www.http://lessons-of-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-cesar-chavez. This website critically analyzes the importance of Cesar Chavez in the field of labor history. Chavez is considered to be a great civil rights leader among Mexican Americans and other Latino groups that have suffered from “internal colonialism” and who have been treated as second-class citizens in the United States. As stated on the website “Chavez was able to solicit hundreds of individual stories of injustice and reweave them into a broader story of economic, political, and racial injustice that enabled him to speak on behalf of Mexican descendants throughout the United States.” He saw himself as a labor organizer rather than an ethnic movement leader; the farm worker’s struggle that he had encouraged is what came to be known as the Chicano movement of the late 1960s. This movement was embraced by many Chicanos and it was used to assert pride in their ethnic heritage and affirm their cultural citizenship. Lastly, Chavez was looked up to as a spiritual leader, and not a symbol of ethnic identity, he kindly demonstrated his strong religious beliefs, and as a result, he was revered as if he was a political saint in a form of civil