Ceasar Chavez

Title: Ceasar Chavez
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Ceasar Chavez

Introduction: Cesar Estrada Chavez founded and led the first successful farm workers’ union in history. When he passed away on April 23, 1993, he was president of the United Farm Workers. Body: A. Child hood i. Born March 31 1927 near Yuma, Arizona ii. Age 10-father losses house and land. iii. 1939 Settles to East San Jose (Sal Si Puedes) iv. Worked fields in California. (Oxnard, Atascadero, King City, Salinas, Delano…) B. Return to Sal Si Puedes- San Jose (1952) i. …showed first 75 words of 463 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 463 total…honored in death by those he led in life. More than 50,000 mourners came to honor him at the site of his first public fast in 1968 and his last in 1988, the United Farm Workers Delano Field Office at "Forty Acres". It was the largest funeral of any labor leader in the history of the U.S. They came in caravans from Florida to California to pay respect to a man whose strength was in his simplicity.

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