How Did Junoan Chavez Contribute To The Civil Rights Movement

César Chávez

César Chávez was an activist and leader who wanted better pay, better treatment, and working conditions for farm workers. He used marches, boycotts on growers, and hunger strikes to get his message out on the treatment of farm workers. Dolores Huerta and César Chávez formed the National Farm Worker Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (from a merge of the union groups National Farm Worker Association and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee). He strived to have better conditions for farm workers, since he was a farm worker when he was a child.

César Chávez led marches to help farm workers with their working conditions and better pay, for farm workers had pesticide issues and didn’t get enough pay to be able to support themselves and their families. He used marches, boycotts on certain produce, hungers strikes, and speeches to gain support about the struggles of farm workers. He successfully got his message out to the public and got the recognition needed to help more farm

The strike happen when Filipino Americans, part of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee went on strike against the Delano-area table and wine grape growers, for they had horrible pay and work conditions for years. They asked César Chávez and the NFWA to join the strike, César Chávez insisted the NFWA help the strike and continue with a march. He used boycotts from Gandhi’s boycott on salt and Dr. Martin King Jr.’s Montgomery bus boycott. He insisted that the UFW members use nonviolent methods, even if most wanted to use violent ways. The UFW members did use nonviolent methods when César went on a fast, consuming only water, he gained national attention and support. The Delano march was a 300-mile march from Delano to Sacramento to show the people that the farm workers need the support to fight growers who give horrible pay and terrible working