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Julio and Fina Hern\u00e1ndez talking with others at the credit union, Delano, ca. 1966. Photo by Emmon Clarke.<\/span><\/em><\/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=”{}”]Born to a nominally well-to-do family in Santa Ana, Sonora, M\u00e9xico on February 16, 1921, Julio Hern\u00e1ndez learned hardship and injustice early on. When he was approximately eight years old, his father lost all his business ventures, changing the family\u2019s quality of life for the worse. He witnessed many injustices and abuses suffered by workers, some of them perpetrated by his own father.<\/span> As a young adult in Sonora, Julio worked as a barber and as a carpenter. His life changed forever when he met and married Josefina, or \u201cFina” as she came to be known. Fina, a U.S. citizen, wanted to return to the United States, and so they returned, landing in Riverside, California where they lived briefly with one of her aunts. Soon, they moved to Corcoran, California, where Fina\u2019s father found him agricultural work.<\/span><\/p>\n Hern\u00e1ndez remembers that living conditions were difficult in Corcoran and any protest or union activity was harshly punished by large growers who were quick to blacklist farmworkers who sought to organize. In fact, Hern\u00e1ndez, his wife Fina, and their children briefly lived in Oregon after he participated in a sugar beet strike against Sager in Corcoran. 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Thus, the march was planned to pass through as many small towns as possible. The march was led by a farmworker carrying a banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, made by 22-year-old Alicia Jim\u00e9nez from Sacramento. American and Mexican flags were also carried at the head of the procession. As the marchers walked single file along Highway 99 and on small roads, people used to come to cheer the workers on and offer food or drinks. Sometimes, music performers welcomed the marchers and a few of these local musicians joined the march to Sacramento. A farmworker advanced team devised strategies to mobilize local farmworker committees and groups to welcome the marchers, feed them, and organize a rally each evening and a mass the next morning. At each rally, Luis Valdez proclaimed the \u201cPlan de Delano,\u201d calling for the liberation of the farmworker. The plan was modeled after Emiliano Zapata\u2019s Plan de Ayala. Teatro Campesino also performed during those rallies. The physical suffering of the long march enhanced the religious aspects. \u201cEvery step was a needle,\u201d C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez recalled. He suffered from a swollen ankle, blisters, and fever for a day or two. Then, he continued the march hobbling a cane. \u201cThe penance part of it,\u201d he said, \u201cis the most important thing of the pilgrimage.\u201d[\/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=”{}”] All this proved useful when C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez tasked Julio with organizing Corcoran. Fina and Julio were founding members of the Farm Workers Association (FWA) in 1962, and later co-founders of the United Farmworkers (UFW). This soon led to a series of milestones for Hern\u00e1ndez, who soon became known for his loyalty and dedication to the community.\u00a0<\/span> Kathy Lynch, Larry Itliong, C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez, Daniel de los Reyes, and Julio Hern\u00e1ndez singing at Filipino Hall, Delano, ca. 1966. Photo by Emmon Clarke.<\/span><\/em><\/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=”{}”]Hern\u00e1ndez served on the executive board of the UFW, as president of the Farm Workers Credit Union, as vice-president of the UFW, and attended numerous marches and union activities throughout the United States, including organizing the grape boycott in Cleveland, Ohio, where he and his family slept in their car. 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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>
[\/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\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/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\" 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 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 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>
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