Cesar Chavez was a highly influential and impactful Chicano during the 1960’s-70’s. Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona, working as a migrant worker for most of his life alongside his family while fully transitioning to being a migrant worker in the fields after his 8th-grade graduation when his dad got into an accident. With this, Chavez was very dedicated to fighting for the rights of migrant workers and Chicanos around the country. Cesar contributed to the Chicano movements by leading peaceful and non-violent protests, marches, boycotts, strikes, etc. helping change in society dealing with the treatment of Chicanos and migrant workers in America. The benefits Cesar Chavez faced during his fight for justice was he was able to gain many …show more content…
It is explained in “The Story of Cesar Chavez” that “Church demanded that the farm workers pay millions of dollars in damages resulting from a UFW boycott of its lettuce during the 1980’s. Rather than bring the legal action in a state where the boycott actually took place, such as California or New York, Church “shopped around” for a friendly court in conservative, agribusiness-dominated Arizona where there had been no boycott activity” (UFW). This is one instance that shows that the people and businesses against the movement were only literally looking to bring these activists down in whatever way they could, so at times for Chavez to keep doing his work without violence he had to give up a lot to continue this peaceful approach in efforts to gain what he was trying to gain. Regardless, Chavez continued to keep this approach, even going as far as fasting many times to prove he could accomplish something in peace. Although at times Chavez had to sacrifice a lot throughout his life for his work and people, he continued to remain true to what he believed in and fought for all the way up until his death regardless of what he had to