The leader you are referring to is César Chávez. He was a prominent civil rights activist and labor leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW). His work in the 1960s and 1970s included organizing strikes and boycotts to improve the working conditions and wages of California agricultural workers, many of whom were Mexican-Americans. Chávez played a significant role in the Chicano Movement, advocating for the rights and empowerment of the Mexican-American community.
What leader led a strike among California
agricultural workers to call attention to low wages and poor
working conditions and led the Chicano Movement?
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