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Helen Ch\u00e1vez being interviewed by Sam Kushner, Delano, 1967. Photo by Emmon Clarke. [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Helen Fabela Ch\u00e1vez was one of the FWA founders. She was born in 1928 in Brawley, California, to Mexican parents that immigrated to the United States in the mass immigration of the 1920s to work as migrant laborers in the San Joaquin Valley. The second of five children, Helen started working in the fields when she was only seven, picking up cotton and grapes together with her mother. Her father died when she was 12, and three years later she and her older sister Teresa quit Delano High School to work full-time and support their mother, their sister Petra, and their four brothers. That same year, 1943, she met Cesar Ch\u00e1vez.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HelenChavez.png” alt=”Julio Hern\u00e1ndez, Margarito Mu\u00f1oz, Kathy Murgu\u00eda are picketing with other strikers next to a grape field where strikebreakers are pruning vines for the Perelli-Minetti company. That day picketers met at the corner of Pond Road and Browning Road to convince other farmworkers to join the strike. A film crew was also present (but out of frame in this photo). At that time the NFWA was involved in the Perelli-Minetti boycott. Farmworkers were able to get a contract with the company in July 1967. Julio Hern\u00e1ndez, Margarito Mu\u00f1oz, Kathy Murgu\u00eda participan en un piquete con otros huelguistas a la orilla de un campo de uvas donde los rompehuelgas est\u00e1n podando vides para la empresa Perelli-Minetti. Ese d\u00eda, los piqueteros se reunieron en la esquina de Pond Road y Browning Road para convencer a otros campesinos de unirse a la huelga. Un equipo de filmaci\u00f3n tambi\u00e9n estuvo presente (pero fuera de marco en esta foto). En ese momento, NFWA participaba en el boicot a Perelli-Minetti. 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Photo by Emmon Clarke. <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Helen and C\u00e9sar married a few years later in 1948 and moved first into a house in Delano, where they picked strawberries in Greenfield, in Crescent City, and finally in San Jose, where they met Fred Ross, founder of the grassroots Latino civil rights group Community Service Organization (CSO). Cesar started working for the CSO shortly thereafter. During this time Helen kept busy being the primary caretaker of their eight children. When Cesar resigned from the CSO in 1962 and stopped receiving a salary, Helen, 34 years old at the time, went back to working in the fields part-time, picking grapes and assembling cardboard boxes at a local factory.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#D22030″ locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#D22030″ width=”100%” max_width=”100%” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cesar-Chavez-and-Helen-Chavez-standing-in-front-of-the-State-Capitol-Sacramento-1966.jpg” alt=”Helen Ch\u00e1vez and Ethel Kennedy participate in a procession in honor of C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez en route to Forty Acres for his funeral, Delano, 1993. Helen Ch\u00e1vez y Ethel Kennedy participan en una procesi\u00f3n en honor a C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez a Forty Acres para asistir a su funeral, Delano, 1993.” title_text=”C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and Helen Ch\u00e1vez standing in front of the State Capitol, Sacramento, 1966″ url=”https:\/\/cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/FMC\/id\/2434″ url_new_window=”on” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#FFFFFF” text_font_size=”40px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”|10vh||5vh|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and Helen Ch\u00e1vez standing in front of the State Capitol, Sacramento, 1966<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#FFFFFF” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” header_4_text_color=”#FFFFFF” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”|10vh||5vh|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and Helen Ch\u00e1vez are standing in front of State Capitol on the last day of the march from Delano to Sacramento. C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez briefly addressed the crowd that day. \u201cIt is well to remember that in defeat there must be courage, but also that in victory, there must be humility,\u201d Chavez said. He then thanked the organizations offered support and the farmworkers who went on strike. At the end of his talk he personally thanked Helen Ch\u00e1vez. \u201cAnd I want to introduce to you someone, when we started organizing four years ago, in fact one of the very few people that thought that this could be done, my wife, Helen.”<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”auto||auto||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n As historian Frank Bardacke writes in his book Trampling Out the Vintage<\/em>, \u201cit was back to the fields for Helen, back to the life of a farmworker mom: getting up at 4 a.m. to lay out breakfast and lunch for the kids; carrying Birdy, the youngest, still asleep, over to his aunt Teresa\u2019s; arriving in the fields by six for a full day of physical labor; going back to Teresa\u2019s to pick up Birdy; returning home to make dinner; cleaning up the kitchen; getting everyone ready for bed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_image=”http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-Chavez-scaled.jpg” background_position=”top_center” background_vertical_offset=”29%” min_height=”70vh” link_option_url=”https:\/\/cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/FMC\/search\/searchterm\/%22Helen%20Ch\u00e1vez%22″ link_option_url_new_window=”on” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”336.8px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”auto||auto||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” link_option_url_new_window=”on” link_option_url=”https:\/\/cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/FMC\/search\/searchterm\/%22Helen%20Ch\u00e1vez%22″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Helen Ch\u00e1vez and Ethel Kennedy at the memorial march for C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez, Delano, CA, 1993. Photo by John Kouns. <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Helen worked in the fields for a year, and after that, she was able to find work full-time as the FWA bookkeeper for $50 a week. Later on, she became an accountant for the union, the administrator for the United Farm Workers (UFW) credit union, and the manager of some of its social service projects. 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Aenean finibus sapien non neque venenatis rhoncus.\u201d<\/p> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"1_3,2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" custom_padding=\"12px||0px|||\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font=\"Montserrat|500||on|||||\" text_font_size=\"22px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p> one of the founders of the United Farm Workers (UFW)<\/p> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font_size=\"20px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]Helen Fabela Ch\u00e1vez was one of the FWA cofounders. She was born in 1928 in Brawley, California, to Mexican parents that immigrated to the United States in the mass immigration of the 1920s to work as migrant laborers in the San Joaquin Valley. The second of five children, Helen started working in the fields when she was only seven, picking up cotton and grapes together with her mother. Her father died when she was 12, and three years later she and her older sister Teresa quit Delano High School to work full-time and support their mother, their sister Petra, and their four brothers. 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Later on, she became an accountant for the union, the administrator for the United Farm Workers Association\u2019s (UFWA) credit union, and the manager of some of its social service projects. She was the center of the union\u2019s financial operations.<\/span> Tom & Ethel Bradley Center [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p> Emergency Information<\/a><\/p> University Policies & Procedures<\/a><\/p> Title\u00a0IX<\/abbr><\/a><\/p> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p> Terms and Conditions for Use<\/a><\/p>
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Phone:\u00a0(818) 677-1200<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\/\u00a0Contact Us<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nHelen Fabela Ch\u00e1vez<\/h1>
Helen Fabela Ch\u00e1vez<\/h1>
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_text=\"Espa\u00f1ol\" button_alignment=\"right\" module_id=\"my-button\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" background_image=\"http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bonnie-Chatfield-Gilbert-Padilla-Helen-Chavez-and-Jessica-Govea-working-at-the-Farm-Worker-Service-Center-Delano-ca.-1966.jpg\" background_position=\"top_center\" background_vertical_offset=\"22%\" min_height=\"75vh\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" module_id=\"section-english\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" min_height=\"336.8px\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"1_3,2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" custom_margin=\"auto||auto||true|false\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font_size=\"20px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]Helen and Cesar married a few years later in 1948 and moved first into a house in Delano, where they picked strawberries in Greenfield, in Crescent City, and finally in San Jose, where they met Fred Ross, founder of the grassroots Latino civil rights group Community Service Organization (CSO). Cesar started working for the CSO shortly thereafter. During this time Helen kept busy being the primary caretaker of their eight children. When Cesar resigned from the CSO in 1962 and stopped receiving a salary, Helen, 34 years old at the time, went back to working in the fields part-time, picking grapes and assembling cardboard boxes at a local factory.<\/span>
[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" background_color=\"#D22030\" locked=\"off\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"2_5,3_5\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" background_color=\"#D22030\" width=\"100%\" max_width=\"100%\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"2_5\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_image src=\"http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cesar-Chavez-and-Helen-Chavez-standing-in-front-of-the-State-Capitol-Sacramento-1966.jpg\" alt=\"C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and H\u00e9len Ch\u00e1vez are standing in front of State Capitol on the last day of the march from Delano to Sacramento. C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez briefly addressed the crowd that day. \u201cIt is well to remember that in defeat there must be courage, but also that in victory, there must be humility,\u201d Chavez said. He then thanked the organizations offered support and the farmworkers who went on strike. At the end of his talk he personally thanked Helen Ch\u00e1vez. \u201cAnd I want to introduce to you someone, when we started organizing four years ago, in fact one of the very few people that thought that this could be done, my wife, Helen.%22\" title_text=\"C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and H\u00e9len Ch\u00e1vez standing in front of the State Capitol, Sacramento, 1966\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"3_5\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_text_color=\"#FFFFFF\" text_font_size=\"40px\" text_line_height=\"1.2em\" custom_margin=\"15vh||||false|false\" custom_padding=\"|10vh||5vh|false|false\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and H\u00e9len Ch\u00e1vez standing in front of the State Capitol, Sacramento, 1966
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_text_color=\"#FFFFFF\" text_font_size=\"20px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" header_4_text_color=\"#FFFFFF\" module_alignment=\"center\" custom_margin=\"||||false|false\" custom_padding=\"|10vh||5vh|false|false\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and H\u00e9len Ch\u00e1vez are standing in front of State Capitol on the last day of the march from Delano to Sacramento. C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez briefly addressed the crowd that day. \u201cIt is well to remember that in defeat there must be courage, but also that in victory, there must be humility,\u201d Chavez said. He then thanked the organizations offered support and the farmworkers who went on strike. At the end of his talk he personally thanked Helen Ch\u00e1vez. \u201cAnd I want to introduce to you someone, when we started organizing four years ago, in fact one of the very few people that thought that this could be done, my wife, Helen.\"
[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"2_3,1_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" custom_margin=\"auto||auto||true|false\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font_size=\"20px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]As historian Frank Bardacke writes in his book Trampling Out the Vintage, \u201cit was back to the fields for Helen, back to the life of a farmworker mom: getting up at 4 a.m. to lay out breakfast and lunch for the kids; carrying Birdy, the youngest, still asleep, over to his aunt Teresa\u2019s; arriving in the fields by six for a full day of physical labor; going back to Teresa\u2019s to pick up Birdy; returning home to make dinner; cleaning up the kitchen; getting everyone ready for bed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>
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