The Delano Grape Strike was a catalyst for a decade of organized actions, including large-scale boycotts against growers, bringing national attention to the struggles of farm workers. In 1965, Larry Itliong, a Filipino-American labor leader and organizer, encouraged Chavez and the NFWA to join the Delano Grape Strike he had organized with the predominantly Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC). He later began efforts to organize farm workers in a movement that became known as La Causa. Born in 1927 outside of Yuma, Arizona, he left school after completing eighth grade to become a migrant farm worker-moving between fields, orchards, and vineyards throughout California to support his family. federal commemorative holiday in 2014 and became known as Cesar Chavez Day.Ĭhavez knew of the struggles, racism, and injustices facing agricultural workers firsthand. In recognition, his birthday on March 31 was declared a U.S.
Chavez’s legacy with the UFW is profound-he dedicated his life to advocating for fair wages, medical coverage, pension benefits, and humane living conditions for hundreds of thousands of farm workers-winning major legislative reforms for laborers. The NFWA played a pivotal role in the labor movement as a precursor to the influential United Farm Workers of America (UFW), which became the first successful farm worker union in American history. Ribelin Endowment, 2019.20, ©1993, Ester HernandezĮster Hernandez’s Homenaje a Cesar Chavez (Homage to Cesar Chavez), is a tribute to the noted civil rights and labor movement activist who, alongside celebrated activist Dolores Huerta, founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in 1962. Ester Hernandez, Homenaje a Cesar Chavez, 1993, screenprint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Frank K.
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