Monday, January 2, 2012
The United Farm Workers Union was founded by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta...?
During Chavez’s participation in the Community Services Organization, Fred Ross trained Cesar Chavez in the grroots, door-to-door, house meeting tactic of organization, a tactic which was vital to the UFW’s recruiting methods. The house meeting tactic successfully established a broad base of local Community Service Organization chapters during Ross's era, and Chavez used this technique to extend the UFW's reach as well as to find up and coming organizers. During the 1950s, Cesar Chavez and Fred Ross developed twenty-two new Community Services Organization chapters in the Mexican American neighborhoods of San Jose. In 1959, Chavez would claim the rank of executive director in the Community Services Organization. During this time, Chavez observed and adopted the notion of having the community become more politically involved in order to bring about the social changes that the community sought. This would be a vital tactic in Chavez’s future struggles in fighting for immigrant rights.[2][3]
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