In 1962, he left the CSO to co-found the NFWA, based in Delano, California, through which he launched an insurance scheme, a credit union, and the El Malcriado newspaper for farmworkers. In 1959, he became the CSO's national director, a position based in Los Angeles. Relocating to California, where he married, he got involved in the Community Service Organization (CSO), through which he helped laborers register to vote. Ideologically, his world-view combined leftist politics with Catholic social teachings.īorn in Yuma, Arizona to a Mexican American family, Chavez began his working life as a manual laborer before spending two years in the United States Navy. Along with Dolores Huerta, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union. Cesar Chavez (born Cesario Estrada Chavez / ˈ tʃ ɑː v ɛ z/ Spanish: Ma– April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist.
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