Cesar Chavez Civil Rights

"We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons"

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When were you born?

I was born March 31, 1927.

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Cesar Chavez employed nonviolent means to bring attention to the plight of farmworkers, and formed both the National Farm Workers Association, which later became United Farm Workers.

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In March 1968, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy joined Cesar Chavez and 8,000 farmworkers in Delano, CA, to end Chavez’s 25-day fast.

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With nonviolence there is no progress it shows weakness towards the movement.

Non-Violence is not inaction, it is not discussion,it is not for the timid or the weak.Non-Violence is hard work ,it is the willingness to sacrifice, it is the patience to win.

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What part of Mexico are you from?

I was not born in Mexico; i’m from Yuma,Arizona.

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Proudly, shaking a united farm workers hand during a lettuce strike.

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What branch of the U.S. military did you join?

I was in the U.S. Navy.

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Is it true you and your wife had 31 children?

No, we have 8 amazing children and are enjoying 31 grandchildren.

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                                              Gov. Edmund Brown Jr., walks in a march with about 15,000 workers who attended another mass rally;Brown came down just for the rally & walked about 4 miles before speaking briefly.

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A scene in the Cesar Chavez film depicts the brutal, 25-day hunger strike that Chavez undertook in 1968 in order to rededicate the movement to nonviolence.

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How did you feel when you received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the President, himself?

Receiving the award from President Bill Clinton I felt honored and I knew it was a great achievement for my cause.

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Xicano members of the UFW (United Farm Workers).

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Women’s suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually, at state and local levels, during the late 19th century and early 20th century, culminating in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provided: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 formulated the demand for women’s suffrage; after the Civil War agitation for the cause resumed. In 1869 the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave the vote to black men, split the movement. Campaigners such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton refused to endorse the amendment, as it did not give the vote to women. Others, such as Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe argued that if black men were enfranchised, it would help women achieve their goal. The conflict caused two organizations to emerge, the National Woman Suffrage Association, which campaigned for women’s suffrage at a federal level as well as for married women to be given property rights, and the American Woman Suffrage Association, which aimed to secure women’s suffrage through state legislation. The groups merged and after 1900 made a new argument to the effect that women’s superior characteristics, especially purity, immunity from corruption and concern with children and local issues, made their votes essential to promoting the reforms of the Progressive Era. Women’s contributions to American participation in the First World War (1917–18) gave the impetus for final victory.

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“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”

Alice Paul (via oduwomenscenter)

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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.“ - Martin Luther King Jr

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Cesar Chavez and Bobby Seale meet students from Malcolm X Elementary, 1972.

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I’m angry that I live in a world where a man who picks food for a living can’t afford to feed his family.

Cesar Chavez (x)