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