Cesar Chavez was a successful, open minded American labor leader who strived to improve working conditions for farm workers around the country, and even in the current time, his work as a labor leader is still being recognized. Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962- an association that seeks an improvement in farm worker salaries and working conditions. To this day, Cesar Chavez’s achievement is still talked about. Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona to immigrant parents. In just 8th grade, he had to quit school to work in the fields, in order to support his family. Cesar Chavez communicated his message via non-violent protests, boycotts, marches and hunger strikes because he believed “violence just hurts those
