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cesar chavez is born in san luis, arizona
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chavez parents lose their farm and began to work as migrant laborers
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Since Chavez parents lost the farm the moved to California
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cesar graduates from 8th grade and becomes a full-time farm worker and his father was in a car accident
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chavez refuses to sit in the Mexican section of a theater. he is held in custody for an hour
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Cesar started serving in the Navy for world war 2
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Cesar didn't reenlist in the Navy when the war ended
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Cesar and Helen fabela get married
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Cesar Chavez starts the National Farm Workers Association
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Chavez starts El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker, the official newspaper of the NFWA.
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NFWA go against grape farmer and boycott grapes
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Senator Robert Kennedy supports NFWA grape boycott
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Chavez lead a 250-mile march from Delano to Sacramento, California, to let the public and law-makers know about the mistreatment of farm workers.
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The nation wide boycott of California grapes begin
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Chavez starts his first hunger strike it lasted 25 through February and march. He did it to stop the mistreatment of strikers
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Cesar was arrested for resisting a court order against boycotting
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The California Labor Relations Act which is the first act to protect the rights of organization of farm workers
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Chavez lead a 1000 mile long March through the valley to call attention to the union election
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The use of the short handed hoe is banned by supreme Court
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Chavez ended all general lettuce and grape boycott
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Cesar started a new boycott because of the excessive use of pesticides
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Cesar leads a 1,000 person March for improved working condition in farm
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Cesar died during a fast
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Cesar Chavez is awarded the presidential medal of freedom
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The us post office issues a first class Cesar Chavez stamp
