Analysis Of Cesar Chavez's Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter For Workers Rights

About 100 years ago you would’ve been working in a company with minimum wage, instead of getting a good education. Life was hard being a kid long ago. But now we can go to school and get a good education. The biography, “About Cesar”, by the Cesar Chavez Foundation, is about Cesar’s life, and him working to fight for immigrant farm workers rights. The author, Judith Pinkerton Josephson, wrote the biography, “Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers Rights” is about Mother Jones trying to convince people and the president to make better child labor laws. Both of these people fought for people’s rights, spoke with citizens, and tried to motivate them to listen and join. As much as Mother Jones has done, Cesar Chavez made a bigger impact on the world.

Cesar Chavez was a civil rights leader, a farm labor leader, a community organizer, a religious and spiritual figure, a champion of of militant nonviolent social changes, and a crusader for the environment and consumer rights. The authors wrote, “As a common man with an uncommon vision, Cesar Chavez stood for equality, justice and dignity for all Americans.” (Chavez Foundation, 19) The author also wrote,”Cesar liked to say that his job as an organizer was helping ordinary people do

She hoped to pass better child labor laws so the children she loved so much could get an education, get a job, and be happy. The author wrote,” Mother Jones wanted the president to get Congress to pass a law that would take children out of the mills, mines, and factories, and put them in school.” (Josephson, 9) The author also wrote,” Though she had not met with the president, Mother Jones had drawn the attention of the nation to the problem of child labor.” (Josephson, 31) These quotes show that Mother Jones worked hard to try to get the children into a school and out of mines, mills, and factories, but