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...worked side by side with Cesar Chavez, the founder and leader of the United Farm Workers...
Under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, the poor treatment of local migrant farm workers was beginning to attract national attention...
Since 1962, the United Farm Workers (UFW) of America and Cesar Chavez, its founders and president, have relied on the support and compassion of the American people. In the first grape boycott, from 1965 to 1970, farm workers and UFW volunteers, including many students, successfully convinced millions of Americans to stop buying California table grapes...
AGAINST ALL THESE injustices and many more, the UFW and Cesar Chavez in 1984 called their third boycott of California table grapes. In 1987, the boycott received the resources it desperately needed to get off the ground and become effective. One year later, in 1988, Chavez embarked on his third water fast since 1968, "The Fast for Life...
Speaking out against injustice takes courage and determination, but we can always look to the life of Cesar Chavez for strength and guidance. As Chavez himself said on the last day of his 25-day fast in 1968, "The greatest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help...