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The Crucible
Lauren Macfarlane
Cesar Chavez Project

Cesar Chavez
1st slide: (Title): Cesar Chavez
2nd slide: Picture of Cesar Chavez
3nd slide: Cesar Chavez’s Early Life 4th slide: Cesar Estrada Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 in San Luis, Arizona. His family had lived there ever since his grandfather immigrated from Mexico.
5th slide: Chavez’s parents Librado and Juana Chavez owned a ranch which was lost when Cesar was 10 years old during the Great Depression. The family was forced to leave and then move to California to become migrant farm workers. After graduating from 8th grade, Cesar started working full-time in the fields to help support his family because his father was injured due to a car crash.
6th slide: Migrant farm workers are people that move from farm to farm to harvest crops when needed. This was a dangerous and hard job due to the use of pesticides.
7th slide: Chavez in the Navy: Cesar served in the U.S. Navy during World War 2. When he returned from war, he labored as a farm worker in California.
8th slide: Chavez married Helen Fabela in 1948 and they eventually had 8 children and 31 grandchildren.
9th slide: How Chavez Helped Improve Life for Mexican Migrant Workers

10th, 11th, and 12th slide: 10th: In 1962, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla started a union called the United Farm Workers. 11th: The UFW organized "huelgas" (the Spanish word for "strikes"). There were many violent fights between the grape growers and the workers. Chavez and many union people were jailed in the struggle. 12th: Some agreements were eventually made between the farm workers union and the growers. In order to force growers to further improve farm worker conditions, Chavez organized a nation-wide grape boycott and then later a lettuce boycott.
13th slide: Cesar Chavez died on April 23, 1993 from natural causes. The body of Cesar Chavez was taken to La Paz, the UFW's California headquarters, by his family and UFW leaders. He was
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