Cesar Chavez
Nonviolent Actions
Who/what influenced Cesar Chavez
Farmworker's Agenda
Bus boycott inspired by King Jr.
influenced by Gandhi and his nonviolent actions
united together to fight for better working conditions and worker rights
worked with his wife and Dolores
not treated as if they were human beings
bad conditions: no bathrooms, fields sprayed with bad pesticides, had no health benefits, paid a dollar an hour
Sangeeta Koilada
lacked worker rights: had no right to organize
held strikes and convinced other farm workers to join them
filipinos
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don't believe in nonviolence regardless of the threats and danger they faced
people appreciated their nonviolent actions and got support from civil rights activists, clergy, and organized labor
strikes were then being put down with outrageous laws so started a boycott which got the attention of the senate and they decided to do something to help them
went on a protest march to Sacramento (started with 75 and ended with 10,000 people)
created the union
organized rallies
boycott on grapes
people started wanting to strike back it had been 2 years but they weren't getting affective results - started burning things
Chavez decided to fast and this was helping because people again reverted back to nonviolence
Robert Kennedy influenced him to continue his actions because he was someone in power who was supporting thme
Influenced by the injustices he witnessed that farmworkers faced
wanted water, bathrooms, pesticide control, and right to represent in a union
boycott supermarkets that sold California grapes