He attended 37 schools as a child, faced discrimination and punishment for speaking Spanish at school, and had to drop out after 8th grade to work and support his family. Attempts to organize workers into unions were violently suppressed.Ĭesar Chavez, born in Arizona in 1927, grew up in a family of migrant farmworkers from Mexico who worked in California.
Migrant workers lacked educational opportunities for their children, lived in poverty and terrible housing conditions, and faced discrimination and violence when they sought fair treatment. from 1941-1964 to undercut domestic wages, break strikes, impede union organizing, and solve World War II labor shortages. Part to the exploitative “bracero program,” which brought thousands of Mexicans to the U.S. By the mid-20th century, most migrant farmworkers in the west were Mexican, due in large In the 19th century, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and Mexican workers did most of the low-paid, physically-demanding agricultural work in western states like California and Arizona.
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