How Did Cesar Chavez Contribute To The Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights movement was a movement where races, other than whites were trying to gain equal rights for all. Cesar Chavez was a leader in trying to gain the minorities rights that the whites had. Cesar was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma Arizona, the son of two immigrant parents. Cesar moved to california in 1939 and for the next 10 years he and his family moved all around the state. It was tough in california because discrimination against Mexican Americans was heavily practiced in california. The discrimination against Mexican Americans cause Cesar and his siblings to drop out of 36 different schools. While they were moving around the state Cesar experienced some conditions that made him want to dedicate his life to changing, and keep

There were contracts signed in 1966 but the strikes still went on for a few more years. Chaves argument with grape growers for better pay grades and working conditions lasted for 4 years. Many growers signed contracts that agreed to these terms. Chavez used nonviolent means to bring attention to the bad working conditions of farmers. These strikes won public relations battles but winning winning the labor relations fight proved to be more difficult. For the next couple of years the NFWA and AWOC conducted a campaign against against the growers and the tea masters. Soon after the NFWA and AWOC came together the United Farm Workers Committee won the first of many representation elections. A few years later the United Farm workers signed a few contracts with a couple of counties winemakers. But some contracts only covered 5,000 of the 250,000 farm workers, the grape strike failed to stop shipments of grapes to consumers. The tea masters union in california challenged the UFW by signing sweetheart contracts with all of the grape growers there. Which began a terrible 4 year struggle. Then in 1937 the tea masters there signed a jurisdictional agreement that temporarily ended the

These promises that Cesar made were short lived as grower opposition and a series of governors that undercut the laws and never used them effectively. After 1976 Cesar led his union through a reorganization intended to improve efficiency and the connection to the public. In 1984 in response of the grape industries refusal use of chemicals on its crops, so Cesar started a an international boycott of table grapes. As a result of failure of the proposition 14 Cesar thought that the UFW had suffered greatly from from poor motivation and lack of communication, so he decided to turn is union into a movement. He got his inspiration from the Synonom community in California that used to be a drug rehabilitation center that turned into a new age religious organization. In 1977 Cesar reached out to a group of Filipino American farmworkers in a way that the plan ended up backfiring. Chavez then later met with the president of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos in manila and endorsed the regime. This caused a rift in the UFW and led to Philip Vera Cruz resigning from the UFW. By the end of the 70s Cesar also butted heads with other members of the UFW about policy issues and the possible creations of other unions within the