American labor leader. Cesar Chavez was
born near Yuma, Arizona, and grew up in migrant labor camps. From
1952 until 1962 he worked for the Community Service Organization, a
self-help group. Then he began working to create a farm workers
union. The union was chartered in 1966 by the American Federation
of Labor and Congress on Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) as the
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, with Chavez as its
president. In 1968 Chavez gained attention as leader of a
nationwide boycott of California table grapes in a drive to achieve
labor contracts.
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