Cesar Chavez In the early 1960s, many minority groups rebelled against conservative America. One of these organizations was the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), a group of migrant farm workers that sought contracts with their employers that would include higher wages and more favorable working conditions. Cesar Chavez, a Mexican-American migrant farm worker and leader of the NFWA, followed the path of Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the two people most influential on …showed first 75 words of 1637 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1637 total…the minimum wage for workers was five dollars per hour, and by 1984, UFW members were earning a minimum of seven dollars per hour. He has undoubtedly changed the role of the migrant farm worker from a poor, desperate man in search money to a respectable, hardworking person that earns a decent living for a difficult job. Cesar Chavez will forever be remembered as the nonviolent protester who transformed the migrant workers’ role in American society.