Cesar Chavez grew up near Yuma, Arizona, on his grandparents’ small family farm in the North Gila Valley, before his family later became migrant farmworkers in California.

Quick Scoop

  • He was born and raised on a family farm just outside Yuma, Arizona, in the North Gila Valley area.
  • During the Great Depression, his family lost the farm, and he spent the rest of his youth moving through California as a migrant farmworker.

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