Harvesting hope by kathleen krull7/6/2023 ![]() The work was mind numbing, and back breaking.Cesar liked to learn, but even that opportunity was fraught with pain. No longer owning the land, they became migrant workers traveling from place to place in the hope of finding work.When work was found, the wages were horrible, the treatment of the workers was on of being beaten down every day. Seeing his mother cry because of all the changes, he vowed to help his family. However, in 1937, the drought baked the land, hard as bricks it was impossible to coax any thing growing in this soil hard as rocks.At ten, his family packed up the truck and traveled to find a better life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cesar Chavez had an early childhood filled with family, enough to eat because there was plenty of food to harvest. ![]()
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