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One of 20th Century America’s iconic labor leaders receives the Hollywood A-list treatment in “Cesar Chavez,“ a biopic inspired by the early career of the eponymous head of the United Farm Workers (UFW). The film, which came out last week, dramatizes the UFW’s long campaign to organize the farm workers, many of them Latino immigrants, who performed back-breaking labor in exchange for the poverty wages handed out by California’s industrial agriculture industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

Chávez is the film’s hero, the UFW co-founder who would take on the industry (personified in the film as John Malkovich’s villainous grape magnate), help to unionize tens of thousands of farm workers, and ultimately leave an indelible mark on both the labor movement and the Latino civil rights movement.

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Born in Yuma, Arizona, to immigrant parents, Chavez moved to California with his family in 1939. For the next ten years they moved up and down the state working in the fields. During this period Chavez encountered the conditions that he would dedicate his life to changing: wretched migrant camps, corrupt labor contractors, meager wages for backbreaking work, bitter racism.

His introduction to labor organizing began in 1952 when he met Father Donald McDonnell, an activist Catholic priest, and Fred Ross, an organizer with the Community Service Organization, who recruited Chavez to join his group. Within a few years Chavez had become national director, but in 1962 resigned to devote.

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Mexican-American Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) was a prominent union leader and labor organizer. Hardened by his early experience as a migrant worker, Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. His union joined with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in its first strike against grape growers in California, and the two organizations later merged to become the United Farm Workers. Stressing nonviolent methods, Chavez drew attention for his causes via boycotts, marches and hunger strikes. Despite conflicts with the Teamsters union and legal barriers, he was able to secure raises and improve conditions for farm workers in California, Texas, Arizona and Florida.

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his hobbies were fishing and reading

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His Wife's name was Helen Fabela Chavez  and his kids names were Sylvia , Paul , Linda, Elizabeth , Eloise , and Anthony Chavez. His  brothers and sisters names were Richard, Rita, Vicki, and Librado Chavez. His mother and father's names are Juana Chavez and Librado Chavez.

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He died on April 23, 1993, in San Luis, AZ

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In 1968, Cesar Chavez led a boycott that resulted in a collective bargaining agreement guaranteeing field workers the right to unionize.

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Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 and Cesar Chavez saved farm workers for little pay and dangerous tools

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Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma Arizona