Senator Robert F. Kennedy viewed Cesar Chavez as "one of the heroic figures of our time." Chavez is known to have been the first to found a successful workers" union in US history. He ... and Louis Fisher's The Life Of Gandhi. All of these works influenced him in his philosophical approach to the farm worker movement. That same year, he is recruited by Fred Ross, an organizer for the Community Service Organization, to help to be an organizer for Saul Alinsky's Community Service Organization. The CSO sent Chavez, in 1958, to Oxnard to confront the ... -CIO in 1966. Chavez made sure that the F...

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... his first strike in protest of low wages and poor working conditions. After several days of protest the workers were forced back to the fields. In 1952, Chavez met Fred Ross, who was part of a group called the Community Service Organization (CSO) formed by Saul Alinsky. Chavez became part of the organization and began urging Mexican-Americans to register and vote ... of California grape-pickers to demand higher wages. They also encouraged all Americans to boycott table grapes as a show of support. The strike lasted five years and attracted national attention. Robert Kennedy gave Chavez ...

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