Cesar Chavez Leadership Style

America. A land founded on the principles of freedom and equality for all regardless of origin, to pursue life, liberty and happiness. A belief and principle established by the men and women who escaped the clutches of tyranny in their homeland of the far east, to establish a greater country that was on the far opposite of the spectrum. However, it is clear and apparent that this idea of freedom is, in many ways, selective and limited. People who did not belong to a certain race, religion and or profession were barred from the most human rights and respect. The community around them were often blinded or ignorant of their peers’ situation. Determined to seek out the inequalities within society, numerous individuals in history became a symbol and an icon of revolution and change. Though the leaders come in different styles, they all share common trait that defines their leadership. The ability to empower others. …show more content…
His household consisted of two brothers and sisters and parents who owned a small business and a farm. When the Great Depression hit in 1929, Chavez’s family was forced to move to California to work after losing their land. During one of the most perilous years for the United States, he and his family struggled to find jobs and relocated so often from camps to camps that his education was halted quickly. Forced to work at a young age under the grueling conditions of long hours, breaking their backs in the Californian heat, Chavez obtained an exposure to the working conditions that his people and others had to endure in order to provide for their families to survive. This experience along with poverty he faced during childhood would then shape his later career as an activist for farm workers in the early to late 60s (Nelson) (Dictionary of Hispanic