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What did Cesar Chavez accomplish? ›

The UFW and Chávez had many accomplishments - establishing minimum wage standards, wage contracts, safer working conditions, child labor reform, and advancement in civil rights for Chicanos and other farm workers. Chávez's dedication to farm workers and civil rights grew out of influential childhood experiences.

For more than three decades Cesar led the first successful farm workers union in American history, achieving dignity, respect, fair wages, medical coverage, pension benefits, and humane living conditions, as well as countless other rights and protections for hundreds of thousands of farm workers.

“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community.”

He was committed to non-violent change and justice, inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. Chavez worked to organize Mexican American farm workers in California, 1965, advocating for better wages, safer working conditions, and less exposure to pesticides.

In 1952, determined to earn protections for food and farmworkers, Chavez began organizing people to advocate for the reform of labor laws, so farmworkers could have basic human rights such as safe working conditions and living wages so they can provide for their families.

Cesar Chavez created the United Farm Workers Association and made it his mission to demand better pay and better working conditions for those who work in the fields.

The history of the United Farm Workers of America dates back to 1962 and quickly transitioned to become the first and largest union for farm workers. Predominantly, the workers were migrants, of Hispanic/Latino background, and adherents of Catholicism.

After experiencing the hardships of being a migrant farm worker, Cesar Chavez worked to improve the civil rights of farm workers, he also helped Mexican Americans become U.S. citizens and sign up to vote. He founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. It later became known as the United Farmer Workers.