WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cesar Chávez, alongside Dolores Huerta and other Chicano activists within this organization, defended the rights of farmworkers by employing nonviolent organizing tactics rooted in Catholic social teaching, Chicano identity, and civil rights rhetoric.

Detailed explanation-2: -Through marches, strikes and boycotts, Chávez forced employers to pay adequate wages and provide other benefits and was responsible for legislation enacting the first Bill of Rights for agricultural workers.

Detailed explanation-3: -For years, Chavez battled the grape growers for better compensation and improved work conditions. He organized a march on Sacramento in 1966, called for a national boycott of California table grapes in 1968, and went on a hunger strike in 1968, continuing the practice of non-violent protest.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chavez modeled his methods on the nonviolent civil disobedience of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.-employing strikes, boycotts, marches and fasts-to draw attention to La Causa. And he drew inspiration from the social teachings of the Catholic Church and from the life of St. Francis.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cesar Chavez spent most of his life working on farms in California, where pay was low and comforts were few. He wanted to improve the situation, so in the 1950s, he started organizing agricultural workers into a labor union that would demand higher pay and better working conditions from their employers.