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The story of Cesar Chavez, a civil rights leader who fought for the rights of migrant farmworkers. He led a 340-mile protest walk to generate support for the movement. The book talks about Chavez's early life, when he was a shy boy from a poor family.

César dedicated the rest of his life to making the world a better place and to serving others. He continued to work to bring respect, dignity, justice, and fair treatment to the poor, to farm workers, and to people everywhere.

In 1952, Chavez was working at a lumberyard in San Jose when he became a grassroots organizer for the Community Service Organization (CSO), a Latino civil rights group. Over the next decade, he worked to register new voters and fight racial and economic discrimination, and rose to become the CSO's national director.

Chávez was born in San Luis, Arizona, near Yuma. His family had lived there since his grandfather immigrated from Mexico. His parents, Librado and Juana, owned a farm and store. The family lost the farm when César was 10 years old (during the Great Depression), and became migrant farm workers.

The story of Cesar Chavez, a civil rights leader who fought for the rights of migrant farmworkers. He led a 340-mile protest walk to generate support for the movement. The book talks about Chavez's early life, when he was a shy boy from a poor family.

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.

Grade 3-6-The dramatic story of Chavez's 340-mile march to protest the working conditions of migrant farmworkers in California is the centerpiece of this well-told biography.

In 1952, Chavez was working at a lumberyard in San Jose when he became a grassroots organizer for the Community Service Organization (CSO), a Latino civil rights group. Over the next decade, he worked to register new voters and fight racial and economic discrimination, and rose to become the CSO's national director.