The Chicano Movement Emily &Alejandro

The Start OfThe Cesar Chavez Movement

In 1962 in California Central Valley (San Joaquin Valley) Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez created a movement to fight for farmworkers rights. This movement was going to be the reason on why farm workers' working conditions and working wage would improve.

(https://billofrig htsinstitute.org/ essays/cesar-ch avez-dolores-hu erta-and-the-un ited-farm-work ers)

Many joined the movement because they also believed farm workers deserved better working conditions and better pay.

The movement was so powerful it even gained American supporters that went against other Americans because they believed in Cesar Chavez word on how farm workers deserve more.

Cesar Chavez GetTogethers

● On September 8,1965 Cesar Chavez started a strike for Grape workers which was organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. Dolores Huerta helped by including her negotiation skills to add on to Chavez advocacy, with the additional help of the Filipino-American organizer.

● This led to several victories for the farmworks and them signing a contract with the union.

● “The strike ended July 29, 1970, when California grape growers signed a union contract with the newly formed United Farm Workers guaranteeing Delano’s farmworkers better pay, worker protections and benefits.”

(https://www. history.com/n ews/latino-lab or-movementstrikes-cesar-c havez )

Cesar Chavez Strategies

● Cesar Chavez urged strikers to resist violence because it would allow the public to see that all they wanted was fair trade and treatment.

● He did not believe that violence had much outcome, he believed the only outcome that came from violence was more brutal violence. To Cesar Chavez non-violence was a winning strategy, it only helped encourage violence

● “Violence just hurts those who are already hurt … Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it … We can turn the world if we can do it non-violently,” Cesar said.

(https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/cesa r-chavez-a-legacy-for-peace-justice-and-nonviolence/#:~:text=Influenced%20by%20Mah atma%20Gandhi%2C%20and,many%20allies %20in%20high%20places.%20%E2%80%A6 )

The chicano movement shows how powerful protesting without violence is. Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and supporters in this movement helped reinforce this .should people really have to put up with police brutality while trying to get back what was supposedly granted to us at birth freedom?

References

● Pierce, J. César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and the United Farm Workers. Bill of Rights Institute. Retrieved March 1, 2023, from

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/cesar-chav ez-dolores-huerta-and-the-united-farm-workers

● gandhi, L. (2020, September 16). 5 Latino-led Labor strikes that championed rights for ... - history. 5 Latino-Led Labor StrikesThat Championed Rights for American Workers. Retrieved March 2, 2023, from

https://www.history.com/news/latino-labor-m ovement-strikes-cesar-chavez

● Alarcon, E. (2003, March 27). Cesar Chavez: A legacy for peace, justice and non-violence. People's World. Retrieved March 2, 2023, from

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/cesar-c havez-a-legacy-for-peace-justice-and-non-vi olence/#:~:text=Influenced%20by%20Mahat ma%20Gandhi%2C%20and,many%20allies

Image links

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● https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-mad ness-of-cesar-chavez/308557/

● https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/chicanoamericantheatre/?page_i d=92

● Page 2:

● https://newsettlement.org/food/2018/05/18/the-united-farmwork ers-movement-history-of-food-as-a-tool-for-resistance/

● https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2019/0 3/29/cesar-chavez-day-accomplish-legacy/3294409002/

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● https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/21198/zz0002w3n3/

● https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cesar-Chavez

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● https://ufwstore.com/x/Button-No-Violencia-Black-and-White-wit h-Cesar-Chavez-B01.html

● https://www.pinterest.com/kacey2648/quotes/

● Page 5:

● https://www.visionofhumanity.org/how-positive-peace-affects-civ il-resistance-movements/

● https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-cesar-chavez-b ecame-cesar-chavez/

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● https://boomcalifornia.org/2021/11/02/chicana-chicano-agonists %EF%BF%BC/

● https://alexanderowood88.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/cesar-ch avez-and-the-non-violent-farm-workers-movement/

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