Cesar Chavez's Movement: The Farmworkers Movement

The topic that I was excited and eager to learn about was the farmworkers movement and what nonviolent acts were performed in order for this movement to become successful. Within the topic I decided to focus on Cesar Chavez and how his religious and Gandhian Principles inspired him to fight for the rights of those oppressed farmworkers who were living in poverty and poor conditions. When I began to research the necessary information to begin writing my essay I started off by going to the CSUMB library website and search for keys and phrases in order to find the necessary information that I needed. Some of the key words and phrases that I used to research my topic was “Farmworkers” and “Farmworkers Movement”. By typing these words I started finding articles and books that related to my topic. I began reading different articles and began to develop my ideas in my essay. I also learned how to easily look and check out books using the CSUMB library. Just by looking at the numbers of the book and the stacks in which they were located I checked out two books that contained information about the churches and farm working. By using the school’s library I learned how simple and easy it is to find the
Before beginning to write my essay and focus on what I wanted to write about I carefully read the few information about the movement that was located in the Gandhi book. Inside the book I learned how Chavez admired some of Gandhi’s principles and decided to apply them to the social change he wanted to create. Also I learned how Chavez was a very spiritual man who decided to add some of his religious ideas to the movement he decided to create. Reading this information was pretty helpful because I began to learn about the basic ideas of my topic and later expand my information by reading the other resources I previously