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Cesar chavez

Published on Nov 21, 2015

My Historical Figure: Cesar Chavez.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Cesar chavez

by Alyssa Reeves :)

About cesar chavez

  • Cesar Chavez founded the NFWA. 
  • The NFWA is the National Farm Working Association.
  • It was created to help Latino farm laborers.
  • He founded it based on his personal experiences. 
  • He was a Latino rights speaker. 
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POSITIVE effect of nfwa

  • It helped many Latinos gain their rights.
  • It helped boost their confidence. 
  • He didn't want others to have to go through what he did. 
  • He didn't other Latinos to have to work fields too. 
  • He wanted all Latinos to be equal. 
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Negative Effect of nfwa

  • It made very many people angry. 
  • It was a strike/club for fieldworkers. 
  • People lost their free labor. 
  • Field working was unfair labor. 
  • Laborers took part and lost work. 

"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own." -Cesar Chavez-

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my sources cited

  • Shaw, Randy. Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century. Berkeley: University of California, 2008. Print.
  • Haugen, Brenda. Cesar Chavez: Crusader for Social Change. Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point, 2008. Print.
  • Levy, Jacques E., and Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2007. Print.
  • Chavez, Cesar, Richard J. Jensen, and John C. Hammerback. The Words of César Chávez. College Station: Texas A & M UP, 2002. Print