Cesar Chavez Day celebrates a lifelong fight for justice for agricultural workers: NPR

The last day of March celebrates the icon of the labor activist and the icon of civil rights, Cesar Chavez, whose battle helped to improve the lives of farm workers in the country to improve inhumane working conditions in the biomedic industry, but often overlooked.

President Barack Obama Declared today A vacation in 2014, noticed in a handful of states, including California, where Chavez started his mission for the first time in challenging the way the farmer was treated.

Chavez child On March 31, 1927, one day, Arizona, for Mexican -born farmers. When he was a child, his family lost her farm during the Great Depression, prompting Chavez to what his profession would have long been of immigrant field work.

The brutal circumstances of this industry noted, as families like it were expected to work on arduous hours in the hot sun for mere penalties, forcing them to live the living conditions that are largely inhuman, and Chavez began studying the work of non -exempted activists such as Reverend Martin Luther King Junior.

After leaving the naval in 1946, Chavez finally adopted the reason – The case – for the largely migratory workforce union and pay for fair wages and better conditions.

In 1962, Chavez left the comfort of a salary in the Community Service Organization and his family transfer to Dylano, California, where he was launched, along with his wife and eight young children, The National Association of Farmers workers.

In 1965, Chavez traveled through the valleys of the Empire and San Jawakin in California to employ new members of the movement that will eventually become the union of United farmer workers. During this recruitment period, Chavez relied on donations to get it.

Although he would remain poorly voluntarily throughout his life, Chavez found success in uniting field workers, as he was heading to non -violent movements such as boycotting the grape market on the table, a famous march of 340 miles from Dylano to Sacramento, and a 25 -day fast in 1968 that he left weak so that he did not read a letter he prepared.

“From the deepest I think that by giving our lives only we find life. I am convinced that the most courageous work is to be the strongest work in masculinity, is the sacrifice of ourselves for the sake of others in a completely not violent conflict for justice.

While Chavez faced the threats of violence from the police and the cruelty of farms owners, as well as spying for years By the FBI Under suspicions of being an extremist, his legacy was adopted in popular culture.

In 1994, a year after the death of Chavez, he got after his death by President Bill Clinton Freedom medal.