Yes We Can Cesar Chavez and Barack Obama Digital Portrait

2. Read Harvesting Hope: The Story Of
Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull
• Text: https://goo.gl/EOIOi1
• Video: https://goo.gl/6kemeH
• Optional reading

3. Migrant Workers
These farmers leaned
over the fields for
twelve hours a day.
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4. Migrant workers were
treated unfairly because
they were of Mexican
descent.
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5. Most of the shacks had
no plumbing or
electricity. Some
camps are still this way.
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6. Most homes had no
windows or doors;
nothing to protect
them from the
elements.
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7. Cesar Chavez
(1927 - 1993)
• Chavez was born on a
farm in Arizona.
• His parents were from
Mexico.
• He became a migrant
worker when he was
ten years old.
• He believed in using
nonviolence to achieve
justice for all farmers.
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8. Chavez Family Suffered During The
Great Depression
• The Chavez family
owned a ranch, but lost
it during the Great
Depression
• In 1937, they moved to
California and became
migrant workers
• Cesar Chavez attended
more than 30 schools
before the age of 15

9. Cesar Chavez Helped Migrant Workers
• Cesar Chavez protested the
working conditions of
migrant workers
– Boycotted buying certain
foods
– Organized the National Farm
Workers Association
• Cesar Chavez’s work led to
the California Labor
Relations Act
– Recognized the right of farm
workers to organize into
unions
– It was signed by Governor
Jerry Brown

10. Cesar Chavez made the world a better place without hurting
anyone. This method of protest is called nonviolence. People who
try to change things this way go on marches, strike and refuse to
eat until their demands are met.
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11. One Person Can Make a Big Difference
• Cesar Chavez died in 1993
• Tens of thousands of
people attended his
funeral
• He was awarded the
Presidential Medal of
Freedom (the highest
civilian honor in the
United States) in 1994
• Many schools and
buildings are named after
Cesar Chavez

12. Si, Se Puede / Yes We Can
• Motto of the United
Farm Workers (Cesar
helped to form this
group)
• In 1972, during Chavez’s
24-day fast he and a
friend named Dolores
Huerta came up with
the slogan
• The slogan was to help
people understand that
they could / should
have rights
The symbol and slogan of the United Farm
Workers of California (UFWOC)

13. Si, Se Puede / Yes We Can
• In 2004, President
Barack Obama
borrowed Cesar
Chavez’s phrase for his
campaign for president
• Artist Shepard Fairey
designed posters for
President Obama using
the slogan (he also
sometimes used the
word “hope” too
• Why do you think
Obama used Chavez’s
slogan?

14. Si, Se Puede / Yes We Can

15. Create Your Own Si, Se Puede / Yes We Can
Poster
• How-to video
https://goo.gl/WCGe1a
• How-to text
directions
https://goo.gl/Kt7C2B

16. Grade Your Work