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Cesar Chavez, a Chicano American, was the child of Arizona farmers who lost their land in the 1930â??s and headed to California. He learned lessons of hard work and also the inequities faced by farm workers. After meeting an organizer named Fred Ross, Chavez. He found he was a natural organizer and soon had put together the foundation of the United Farmworkers Union.

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