Richard Chavez

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Richard Estrada Chavez (November 12, 1929 – July 27, 2011) was an American labor leader, organizer and activist. Chavez was the younger brother of labor leader César Chávez, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Richard Chavez is credited with building the UFW into a major California agricultural and political organization. Chavez was born to a migrant family on November 12, 1929, in Yuma, Arizona, on a family farm. He worked as a child migrant worker during the Great Depression. He transitioned from farm work and later became a carpenter, working in lumber mills and joining a carpenter’s union apprenticeship program in San Jose, California. In the early 1960s, Chavez would leave his job as a carpenter in order to assist his brother Cesar Chavez in an effort to organize California farm workers. Richard Chavez along with Cesar Chavez and organizing leader Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which would...

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