Cesar Chavez's Rights Movement Essay

“...We have seen the future and the future is ours.” The famous Cesar Chavez said this during his speech to the Mexican-American in 1984. As people who were mistreated and defenseless against the government and the communities they lived in, Mexicans sought to better their situations by uniting and holding strikes and boycotts, conferences, and participating in speeches. Powerless people can change their fate by coming together and involving themselves in the problem or going out to help themselves or a family.
During the Delano grape strike, 1965 to 1970, Cesar Chavez inspired migrant workers, who were powerless, to come together and get the rights they deserve as a human being. The growers treated the migrant workers wrong, they would beat the workers if they didn’t work. The strikers were gaining political power through Robert Kennedy as they were striking. Others might say that the workers don’t deserve the right because most of them aren’t United states citizens. I say that all people in the United States deserve their rights, Citizen or not. Even-though some strikers were beat, arrested and ended up, the migrant workers earned their rights and changed their fate for themselves and their family.
In the late 1960’s and early
Without the condition they’ll be in, thousands of men lined up to become braceros. The Braceros would have to use short-handled hoe to hoe the dirt, meaning they had to bend down all the time. They say that the braceros could take their families with them. I say that the Bracero programs wouldn’t let them take their family. [Note: This is implied in the bracero program packet, Primary Source collection 2] The Braceros would have to work for many hours while in a bad condition to support themselves and their families, meaning that they were trying to change their family fate while changing their own in the