Cesar Chavez

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Throughout history there been discrimination of immigrant workers by business corporation to increase their own benefits. Cesar Chavez was known to be the greatest organizer and leader of the UFW labor union. Cesar Chavez was a well-recognized man among the Chicanos and Hispanic community. He was known for his effort of having better farmer equality and nonviolent movement. Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona to immigrant parents where they lost their land and had to move to California and different places of the state. For the next ten years Chavez would experience the harsh condition of working in the field and that would lead him to change his lifestyle. Rom Brafman is psychology and the study the behavior and the mindset. Brafman wrote …show more content…
In his book he says, “They place a high premium on being able to engage in activities they find fulfilling” (Brafman 62). Chavez growing up had a difficult childhood due to losing their land to the “white people” and living in an era where there was a major segregation and extreme racism toward mexican. Cesar Chavez mention in an article that when he was going to school he was forbidden to speak spanish. He said, “He remembered having to listen to many racist remarks and noted how schools were so segregated. Chavez said that in integrated schools he felt “like a monkey in a cage (Worker world)”. This prove that Chavez did not want to live in an environment where he was limited to do certain thing without being discriminated for being mexican american. He also mention that when he first started the farm working movement he was criticized because he took an inspiring slogan “si, se puede” which mean “yes, we can”. Eventually this lead Chavez to become one of the most recognized leader of the farm working. No one ever thought that his boycott and strike for better equality was going to be one of most successful social justice for the farm