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Cesar E. Chavez born in Yuma, Arizona
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Chavez family leaves Yuma to work in California as migrant farm workers
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Chavez is forced to leave school, after completing 8th grade, in order to help support the family
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Chavez join the Navy
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Cesar marries Helen Fabela, moves to San Jose, CA
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Cesar works in Oxnard for 18 months dealing with Bracero Program issues
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Chavez established NFWA or FWA in Fresno Union has first convention of 211 members
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Grape boycott started
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Chavez and strikers walk from Delano joined by thousands of supporters soon reaching the Capital of Sacramento, negotiates and agreement NFWA, Union contract for the farm workers in US history
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Chavez leader of small group of Filipino workers in a grape strike
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Both forces National Farm Workers Association and Agricultural Worker Organizing Committee together they merge as United Farm Workers Organizing Committee.
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Cesar begins a fast for non-violence for 25 days. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, 8,000 farmer's supports at a mass where Chavez breaks the fast. "One of the heroic figures or our time"
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Chavez dies in San Luis Arizona, but not before 36 days fast in Keene to protest pesticide use, in support of Rachel Carson