Cesar a Mexican-American, was born in 1927 on a farm in Yuma, Arizona. His full name was Cesar Estrada Chavez. He began working on the farm when he was a small child. When he was 10 years old his parents lost the farm in the Great Depression. Because of this his parrents became migrant farm workers in California only earning about a dollar a day to pick fruit.
In the early 60's Cesar began organising a union for farm workers, but it was more than a union it was the La Causa. La Causa was a movement that gave wellbeing