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A 6 page paper which examines the man, the leader of migrant farm workers and his commitment to minority rights. Specifically considered are why he was able to achieve such dramatic social change; what made him a leader, and why he was able to succeed where others before had failed; his devotion to religion and human principles; his sensitivity to the needs of the impoverished; his ability to sacrifice himself; his belief in nonviolence, and the influences of the activism of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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man is to suffer for others. God help us be men" (Taylor, 1975, p. i). Those impassioned lines delivered by United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez in 1968
describe the essence of the man himself. Chavez (1927-1993) was a tireless crusader for minority rights, and while he was not the first to attempt to organize California migrants,
he was the first to succeed beyond anyones expectations. He prided himself on being a simple man of common sense, but Cesar Chavez was a complex human being with
an unwavering concept of justice, and of right and wrong. Chavez devoted his life of sixty-five years to the service of his family, his religious faith, his people, his
fellow farm workers, because to him, they were all one and the same. The second child of Librado and Juana Chavez was born
into a proud tradition of Mexican-American farmers. Like many other families of the Depression era, the Chavezs were forced to relinquish their 160-acre Yuma, Arizona farm (Taylor, 1975).
The experience left a lasting impression on young Cesar, who recalled many years later that the sheriffs deputy "had the papers that told us we had to leave, or go
to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were confused, worried. For two or three days the deputy
came back, every day... we had to leave" (Taylor, 1975, p. 59). Because farming was the only livelihood Librado Chavez had known, he was forced to head westward and
join an impoverished collective known as the California migrant community. There, alongside his parents, siblings and people of all ethnic groups, Chavez picked any fruit that was in season,
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