Cesar Chavez Digital Yes We Can Portrait Project

Read Harvesting Hope: The Story Of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull

• Text: https://goo.gl/EOIOi1 • Video: https://goo.gl/6kemeH • Optional reading

Migrant Workers

These farmers leaned over the fields for

twelve hours a day.

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Migrant workers were treated unfairly because

they were of Mexican descent.

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Most of the shacks had no plumbing or

electricity. Some camps are still this way.

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Most homes had no windows or doors; nothing to protect

them from the elements.

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Cesar Chavez(1927 - 1993)

• Chavez was born on a farm in Arizona.

• His parents were from Mexico.

• He became a migrant worker when he was ten years old.

• He believed in using nonviolence to achieve justice for all farmers.

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Chavez Family Suffered During The Great Depression

• The Chavez family owned a ranch, but lost it during the Great Depression

• In 1937, they moved to California and became migrant workers

• Cesar Chavez attended more than 30 schools before the age of 15

Cesar Chavez Helped Migrant Workers

• Cesar Chavez protested the working conditions of migrant workers– Boycotted buying certain foods– Organized the National Farm

Workers Association

• Cesar Chavez’s work led to the California Labor Relations Act– Recognized the right of farm

workers to organize into unions– It was signed by Governor Jerry

Brown

Cesar Chavez made the world a better place without hurting anyone. This method of protest is called nonviolence. People who

try to change things this way go on marches, strike and refuse to eat until their demands are met.

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One Person Can Make a Big Difference

• Cesar Chavez died in 1993• Tens of thousands of

people attended his funeral

• He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest civilian honor in the United States) in 1994

• Many schools and buildings are named after Cesar Chavez

Si, Se Puede / Yes We Can• Motto of the United Farm

Workers (Cesar helped to form this group)

• In 1972, during Chavez’s 24-day fast he and a friend named Dolores Huerta came up with the slogan

• The slogan was to help people understand that they could / should have rights

The symbol and slogan of the United Farm Workers of California (UFWOC)

Si, Se Puede / Yes We Can• In 2004, President Barack

Obama borrowed Cesar Chavez’s phrase for his campaign for president

• Artist Shepard Fairey designed posters for President Obama using the slogan (he also sometimes used the word “hope” too

• Why do you think Obama used Chavez’s slogan?

Si, Se Puede / Yes We Can

Create Your Own Si, Se Puede / Yes We Can Poster

• How-to videohttps://goo.gl/WCGe1a

• How-to text directions

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