Cesar Chavez, an American Hero

Chávez was trained and taught by Fred Ross, and started working as an organizer in 1952 for the Community Services Organization (CSO), a Latino civil rights group. Chávez urged Mexican-American to register and vote, and he traveled throughout California and made speeches in support of worker's rights. He became CSO's national director in the late 1950's.
Four years later, however, Chávez left the CSO. He co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with Dolores Huerta. In 1965, the Filipino workers, under their organization the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), initiated the Delano grape strike on September 8 to protest in favor of higher wages.