Cesar Chavez

By chicka501

  • Birth of Cesar Chavez

    Birth of Cesar Chavez
    In San Luis, Arizona

  • Lost Farm

    Lost Farm
    The Chavez family lost the farm during the Great Depression and began travelling between Arizona and California as migrant farmworkers.

  • Detained

    Detained
    In Delano, California, Cesar Chavez challenged the segregation policy by refusing to sit in the “Mexicans” section; he was detained by the police for one hour.

  • Discharged from WW2

    Discharged from WW2
    Chavez was discharged from the Navy and returned to his family in Delano, where he resumed work in the fields. At this time, Chavez joined his first union, the National Agricultural Workers Union.

  • NFLU

    NFLU
    The Chavez family joined the National Farm Labor Union (NFLU) and participated in a cotton strike.

  • Joined the Community Service Organization (CSO)

    Joined the Community Service Organization (CSO)
    Joined the Community Service Organization ( CSO) to formally help others. Fred Ross and Cesar Chavez helped mexican americans to register as voters. Put up citizenship classes and ran errands when ever the organization needed help.

  • NFWA

    NFWA
    The NFWA had 1,000 dues paying members and 50 locals. The union headquarters opened in Delano. “El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker” becomes the official newspaper of the NFWA. The Civil Rights Bill is passed, banning discrimination in voting, employment, and public accommodations.

  • NFWA (The National Farm Workers Association)

    NFWA (The National Farm Workers Association)
    NFWA (The National Farm Workers Association) was born, to create another organization to advance the cause of farmers.

  • Grape boycott

    Grape boycott
    Chavez organized a five-year "grape boycott," a movement that urged people to stop buying California grapes until farm workers had contracts insuring better pay and safer working conditions. The name of the union was changed to the United Farm Workers (the UFW) in 1974. In 1978, some of the workers' demands were were lifted.

  • International Grape Boycott Day

    International Grape Boycott Day
    The UFW declared May 10th International Grape Boycott Day. Throughout the year, shipments of California table grapes were stopped in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal and Toronto. In England, British dockworkers refused to unload California grapes.

  • Death Date

    Death Date
    Past away in his sleep.

  • Chavez

    Chavez
    In April, the United States Postal Service will issue a Cesar E. Chavez commemorative stamp.
    The stamp image was painted by Roberto Rodriguez based on a photograph taken by Bob Fitch in 1976.