Julio cesar chavez biography for kids
Julio cesar chavez autobiography!
Cesar Chavez learned about the prejudice against the Hispanic community in America very early in life. His family home and land in Yuma, Arizona was stolen with an illegal deal from white businessmen.
Julio cesar chavez biography for kids
His family, now poverty stricken, relocated to California and lived in a ‘barrio’ (slum) and his father set the goal to try to send his children to college so that they could escape a poor life.
They all worked up and down the California coast as farm and migrant workers and Cesar attended thirty seven different schools that were taught by white teachers.
Cesar grew up learning to live with horrible racial comments by both the teachers and students as well as some schools that separated the Hispanic children from the white children. He was forced to drop out of school in the eighth grade and work the fields full time when his father was involved in an accident.
After two years in the Navy, which was segregated for minorities, he married and returned to San Jose, California where