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Quiet and unobtrusive, Cesar Chavez took on a seemingly impossible task with the simple admonition to those who doubted him: "Sí se puede"--yes, it can be done--he would insist.
Chavez was a migrant farmworker by birth and by trade. Although he was extremely well-read later in life, his formal education ended after the eighth grade. He never owned a house. He didn’t own a car. He never made more than $6,000 a year.
For more than 100 years, organizers, on the behalf of farmworkers, had been unsuccessfully trying to form a union. Chavez had a better idea; he took the battle from the few and gave it to the many: to the farmworkers themselves and to the American consumers in communities throughout the nation.
Chavez’s sharpest spear was nonviolence, his most devastating sword, the boycott. With these two weapons and an undying dedication to justice, Chavez awakened America to the plight of the migrant farmworker. In doing so, he improved the lives of thousands of farmworkers and taught important lessons about justice and self-sacrifice to countless others.
George Elfie Ballis has been doing still photography and movies on the edges of social change with farmworkers, civil rights organizers, working people and environmentalists for almost half a century.
Cindy Wathen is a native Central Californian. An Acquisitions Coordinator for Osborne/McGraw-Hill, she resides in Berkeley, California.
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