they formed the farm workers association
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Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
Cesar Chavez's children's names are Fernando, Paul and Anthony Chavez; Linda Chavez Rodriguez, Sylvia Chavez Delgado, Eloise Chavez Carrillo, Anna Chavez Ybarra and Elizabeth Chavez Villarino.
They organized Mexican farm workers. :) Apex!
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta's parents are Juan Huerta and Alicia Chavez. Her father was a miner and her mother was a homemaker, and they both influenced her commitment to social justice and activism. Dolores Huerta is a prominent labor leader and civil rights activist, co-founding the United Farm Workers union alongside Cesar Chavez.
Dolores Huerta fought for farm workers to get equal rights equal working conditions.
she worked for the reformation of farm workers along side of Cesar Chavez
The United Farm Workers was founded by Cesar Chavez in 1965 by combining the National Farm Workers Association and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee.
First, its Cesar Chavez the significance is that he and Dolores Huerta worked together many years in many non-violent protests (as did Martin Luther King Jr) but they did this to get migrant farm workers decent pay and decent working conditions
Cesar Chavez lead the movement to unionize Hispanic farm works, initially in California, and became famous because of the grape boycott that was part of that effort.
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