Cesar Chavez: The Evolution Of The Chicano Movement

The “struggle in the fields” was a period where farm workers were tired and fed up with inhuman treatment and poor working conditions. The wages were very bad, the farm workers were considered just another item the owners of the fields they worked in they did not treat them with respect. The young people had to stop going to school to go out to the fields and work with their parents, they would only get two or three years of education. The farm worker’s life expectancy was only up to 49 years of age at that time. The workers were not able to read something that the employers would take advantage of, the farm workers would only get paid about $2.00 per day. All of this contributed with the evolution of the Chicano movement by gathering all the farm workers together and developing a “huelga” (boycott) to demand better working conditions and better …show more content…
By launching the “huelga” against the California grape growers in 1965, Chavez and his people eventually led to the first union contracts in farm labor history. But before this could happened there were several events that happen, and one of those events was the pilgrimage that Chavez started from Delano Ca to the state capital with many followers. Since they saw that they were not being heard by the grape growers the Chicano farm workers decided to take the issue to the state capital with many of the workers from the Delano farms and many of which had joined them throughout the journey to the state capital from different cities. Chavez’s union after seen they weren’t going to get much from the strike at the fields they decided to make it widely to stop people and commercial stores from buying grapes from the grape growers. Which was a success after a five years of