Injustice In Cesar Chavez Film

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The quote “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere” by Martin Luther King Jr. is saying that if people point out injustice in one situation, they will apply that example to other situations elsewhere. This was shown in the Cesar Chavez movie. In the movie I learned that in 1964 a movement was on its way up and the union United Farm Workers Association (UFWA) was formed with 1,000 members, mostly from the workers in the grape farms around Delano. The farm workers wanted better wages and better working and living conditions so, in August 1965, a strike of Mexican and Filipino grape workers in Delano caught the leader of the United Farm Workers Association, Cesar Chavez’s attention. An even larger strike led by the Filipinos against all the

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