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Chavez founded a union, a _________________________________ that works to help increase the wages and improve the working conditions and safety of farm workers. He also organized strikes (when workers _________________________________ to work until improved working conditions and salary _________________________________ are met) and nation-wide boycotts of agricultural products in order to help workers (a boycott is a protest in which the public is asked not to buy certain products). Chavez went on many hunger strikes, refusing to _________________________________ until violence against strikers ended and until legislators (law makers) voted to make laws improving the lives of farm workers. He was also jailed many times during his fight against terrible migrant worker conditions.
Chavez was born in San Luis, _________________________________. When Cesar was 10 years old, his parents became migrant farm workers after losing their family farm. As a youth, Cesar worked part-time in the farm fields with his family in Arizona and in California as they moved from farm to farm, harvesting the fields. Cesar served in the US Navy during World War 2. When Cesar Chavez returned from the war, he labored as a farm worker in California. Chavez married Helen Fabela in 1948; they eventually had 8 children.
Chavez and his wife taught Mexican immigrants to _________________________________ and organized voting registration drives for new US citizens. He joined an organization that worked for the rights of farm workers. In 1962, Chavez started his own union (a workers' rights group), the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). The name of the union was changed to the United Farm Workers (the ______________________________) in 1974. The union organized many farm worker strikes, resulting in many bitter and violent fights between the grape growers and the farm workers; Chavez and many union people were _________________________________ in the struggle. Some agreements were made between the farm workers union and the growers, but in order to force growers to further improve farm worker conditions, Chavez organized a nation-wide lettuce boycott.
In 1968, Chavez organized a five-year "grape _________________________________," a movement that urged people to stop buying California _________________________________ until farm workers had contracts insuring better pay and safer working conditions.
After a lifetime of valiantly fighting for social justice, Chavez died of natural causes at the age of 66 (in 1993). To this day, Chavez's _________________________________ and grandchildren continue his fight for social justice.
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