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
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