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Where was Cesar Chavez born?
Yuma, Arizona
What grade did Cesar stop going to school?
He stopped going to school in the eighth grade.
What year did Cesar go into the Navy?
He went into the Navy in 1946 in the after-math of World War II.
When is Cesar Chavez's birthday?
Cesar Chavez's birthday is March 31, 1927.
What does adversity mean?
A difficult or unlucky situation that someone goes through in life.
What is Cesar Chavez's motto and what does it mean?
Cesar Chavez's motto was "Si se puede" and it means "Yes, it can be done!"
Since Cesar passed away, what facilities did hundreds of communities name after him?
They named schools, public facilities, streets, and libraries after him.
As an organizer what did Cesar like to say?
He liked to say "He like helping ordinary people do extraordinary things."
Finish this sentence."Cesar succeeded where so many others failed _______ ________ _________ ____ ______ ____ ________." (Paragraph 18) by the Cesar Chavez Foundation.
"Cesar succeeded where so many others failed for 100 years to organize farm workers." (Paragraph 18) by the Cesar Chavez Foundation.
What is a strike?
A strike is a protest when workers stop working for the employers that treat them unfairly.
What day did Cesar Chavez pass away and where?
Cesar passed away on April 23, 1993, in San Luis, Arizona.
What did Cesar Chavez stand up for?
He stood for equality, justice, and dignity for all Americans.
In "Cesar Chavez's Legacy" section what three words did they use to describe him?
They described him as a great communicator, humble and humanitarian.
What president posthumously awarded Cesar the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
What is a boycott?
An organized protest by refusing to buy an item or use any services to hurt the companies that treat employees or people unfaily.
What did Cesar do with his family from his youth to his adult life?
Cesar worked the fields in a circuit through California.
How much money did the union medical health benefits payout for the farm workers?
The union medical health benefits paid out more than 250 million dollars in benefits.
What tool was abolished from the fields and why?
The tool that was abolished from the fields was the short-handled hoe because it crippled many generations of people who worked in the fields.
How many states declare Cesar Chavez's birthday an official holiday?
10 states declare Cesar's birthday as an official holiday.
What does negotiate mean?
To work out an agreement where both groups will get something they want out of a deal.
What did Cesar Chavez do?
Cesar Chavez was a civil rights, Latino and Farm Labor leader.
What happened to Cesar's family when he turned 11?
His family lost their farm during the Great Depression.
What are the different things that Cesar Chavez did to protest?
Cesar protested with strikes, marches, boycotts, and fasts.
What did the first union contracts require when Cesar first organized the union?
The first contracts required rest periods, toilets in the fields, clean drinking water, hand-washing facilities, protective clothing against pesticides, no spraying pesticides while they are working, and banning harassment towards discrimination towards women.
What does unprecedented mean?
Unprecedented means that an event has never happened before this point in time.