![]() He and his family worked in the fields of California from Brawley to Oxnard, Atascadero, Gonzales, King City, Salinas, McFarland, Delano, Wasco, Selma, Kingsburg, and Mendota.Ĭesar Chavez, Migrant Workers Union Leader, 07/1972 U.S. They lived in the barrio called Sal Si Puedes or "Get Out If You Can." Chavez thought the only way to get out of the circle of poverty was to work his way up and send his kids to college. They returned to California in June 1939 and this time settled in San Jose. He lived in La Colonia Barrio in Oxnard for a short period, returning to Arizona several months later. In 1938 he and his family moved to California. Later, Chavez would say "the love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature." Later, during the Depression, when Chavez's father could not pay the interest on the loan, the lawyer bought back the land and sold it to the original owner. Chavez's dad went to a lawyer who advised him to borrow money and buy the land. The agreement was broken and the land sold to a man named Justus Jackson. Chavez's father agreed to clear eighty acres of land and in exchange he would receive the deed to forty acres of land that adjoined the home. The small adobe home where he was born was swindled from his family by dishonest people. He learned about justice and injustice early in life. Cesar Estrada Chavez was born March 31, 1927, on a small farm near Yuma, Arizona.
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