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Cesar Chavez - Essay and Term Paper
Cesar E. Chavez was born on March thirty-first nineteen twenty-seven near Yuma Arizona to Liberado and Juana Chavez. He
was named after his grandfather who escaped from slavery on a
Mexican ranch and arrived in Arizona in the eighteen hundreds. Cesar
was the second of six children. Liberado worked on the family ranch
and owned a store in the Gila Valley. The family lived in an apartment
above the store.
Chavez started school at the age of seven, but it was hard for him because his family only spoke Spanish. Chavez chose to learn English from his uncles and grandparents who would read to him in Spanish. Chavez learned many things from his mother. She believed violence and selfishness were wrong, and she taught these lessons to her children.
In the 1930`s, due to the Great Depression, Chavez` father lost his business, and the family moved back to the ranch. In 1937 a severe drought forced the family to give ......
Total Word Count: 661
Page Count: 2.6 (250 words a page / double spaced)
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