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Cesar Chavez: A Brief Story Of An Immigrant

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Born to a family of 8 siblings on June 20, 1953 in Del Rio Texas, my grandmother’s story had started.Back in the year of 1955 her mother had been working as a maid at the hotel called Francisco Grande Hotel (training hotel for the San Francisco Giants),making 80 cents an hour, while her father had been working with Cesar Chavez’s farm labor organization. They moved to Stanfield, Arizona during 1955, because her father had to work for the ranchers in the tractor fields. For chores on Saturday’s everyone in the family had to pick a room and clean that room, my grandmother’s prefered room to clean was the living room. On her spare time she liked to hang out with her friends such as going to see a movie or going to the mall.
In school she played volleyball and basketball in the 8th grade. When she wasn’t at school she was able to work in the summertime if the family did not travel to California. …show more content…

She was raised in San Jose, California. She graduated from Andrew Hill High School in 1972. Then, she worked for Levi Strauss for many years, and at an early age, (23) in 1977 she had my father (Chris), she went back to work to Levi Strauss after his birth. While working at Levi Strauss, every paycheck she put 20 dollars in a savings account and by the end of the year she had saved 1,000 dollars and used that money as a deposit for her first car. The model of the car was a blue Plymouth Arrow. Car payments at that time were 125 dollars a month.
Lived in San Jose, California through the year 2008, moved to Merced, California to be with family at the time. Lived with parents in order to find a job, and housing at the time but, that was when everything in the economy was bad. Helped with elderly parents, until her mother got sick and passed away and now is still helping elderly father at the age of 92 with elderly care, and helps my parents while they work to babysit my siblings and

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