Essays on Cesar Chavez

The 6th U.S president John Quincy Adams once said ‘If you actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” In other words, a leader is about helping out others and making them a better version of...

No matter how ridiculous it may seem, but even today, two absolutely different public institutions -Public Schools and Jails- are competing for government attention. And oddly enough, the prisons can be declared as the fair winners. Now, what are the reasons behind these unpleasant results?...

Since the early 1900’s, farm workers have been treated as though they were slaves, getting paid barely anything with terrible working conditions. It was not until Dolores Huerta came about that things for farm workers started to change and get better. Whether she was a...

As you know many things have happened in the past years. There were many injustices that people of color experience first hand. One group of individuals that experienced this were Mexican Americans who are descendants of Mexican immigrants. Civil liberties constitutionally established guarantees that protect...

Reies Tijerina Lopez positively showcased his leadership to that impacted the Mexican-American community through his message, methods usage, and political influence. Reies was an activist who led a struggle in the 1960s and 1970s to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their...

Don’t Get Too Comfortable Here, America ¨Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.” As said by Cesar Chavez, celebrating your culture’s pride shouldn’t include showing any disregard to people of any other country or ethics. This quote appears...

Many people have been engaged in civil rights movements, in the United States of America. The impacts that they have made differ depending on the influence that they have had. There are those who have left a legacy because of the commitment that they put...

Nonviolent disobedience is one of the most effective ways to make a change. Gandhi freed India from the British Empire through it. Martin Luther King Jr. propelled the civil rights movement with it. Cesar Chavez used it to bring rights to laborers in the field...