Cesar Chavez and his Greatness as a Leader

Cesar Chavez and His Greatness as a Leader Throughout the worlds history there have been countless effective leaders. Many leaders are effective because they carry with them one trait that stand out to the people. Rosa Parks exuded her bravery when sitting in the front of the bus. Determination played a key role in Nelson Mandela’s leadership in South Africa. There are some leaders that hold more than just one trait, like Cesar Chavez. Everything Cesar Chavez experienced in his life made it possible for him to bear the qualities he had and affect the world during his career. His life experience gave Cesar the leverage to have the support of the migrant workers he was fighting for. From the starts of Cesar’s career to the end, he showed the world how he could relate to the migrant workers, his dedication to giving them their union rights, his selflessness in giving his whole life to the cause, and how influential he turned out to be to the world by actually making it happen.
First, Cesar had gone through a childhood of obstacles that made him able to relate to the migrant workers on a personal level. In the background essay it shares some of Cesar’s life as a child growing up, revealing he grew up in a Chicano family in the middle of the Great Depression. It helped him understand to be someone that did not have financial stability or food. That kind of life style happened to be really close to a migrant workers life. Being a Chicano man made his efforts easy when reaching out to the migrant workers; Migrant workers were mostly Chicano. Knowing how it felt to not always have a dinner to eat or have the warmest clothes, gave Cesar an extra drive for the migrant workers. They could trust him because he was one of them, not an outsider. Also as a child, his family moved with the seasons so they always had work. This situation left Cesar attending 36 different schools before he dropped out in the eighth grade. Even though he did not have the chance to get a full