A group of workers that organize for better working conditions.
100
What is a migrant worker?
Someone who travels around and picks crops at different farms.
100
The state where Dolores Huerta was born.
What is New Mexico?
100
Legal workers brought from Mexico to work in the fields.
What are braceros?
200
The state César was from.
What is Arizona?
200
What is a strike?
When workers refuse to work until conditions improve.
200
Started the strike by walking out of the fields, then asked César for help.
Who were the Filipinos?
200
I couldn't tolerate seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.
What is the reason Dolores stopped teaching school?
200
Practice of cutting hoe handles into 3 to save money.( Not Jaime's girlfriend.)
What is the short hoe system?
300
Number of schools César attend by 8th grade.
What is too many to remember?
300
A worker that crosses a picket line to replace striking workers.
What is a strike breaker or a scab?
300
New York senator who supported the strikers and led an investigation into the strike and boycott.
Who was Robert Kennedy?
300
Number of times Dolores was arrested during the Grape Workers' Strike.
What is nearly two dozen times?
300
I supply work crews to growers and take my cut from the pickers wages.
What is a contractor?
400
Reason César dropped out of school.
What is to work in the fields to support his family?
400
What is a boycott?
Refusing to buy or use goods and services until change happens.
400
What was the symbol Cesar put on his union's flag? (Hint: it represented the migrant farm workers.)
A black eagle.
400
Why did Cesar sometimes go on fasts?
To get his union workers to stop being violent, or as a protest over things he didn't agree with.
400
The daily wage and annual average income of a migrant family.
What is a dollar an hour and 1,300 dollars a year.
500
Helen Favela
Who was César Chavez' wife?
500
What is a picket line?
A group of workers carrying picket signs around their place of work.
500
What is the name of Cesar's union?
The United Farm Workers (UFW)
500
Person Dolores was protesting when police attacked her and ruptured her spleen.
Who was Vice-President George H.W.Bush?
500
Average months in a year a migrant child attends school.