 He was a mexican- american, prominent union leader and labor organizer  Founder of National Farm Workers Association.  Undertook efforts for Hispanic minorities that live in the United States  He committed himself to voluntary poverty and active nonviolence as constitutive practices of a life dedicated to this moral vision.

 He was fighting for rights and freedoms  He strongly promoted American labour movement  He was supporting farm workers  Chavez he drew attention for his causes via boycotts, marches and hunger strikes ( non violent methods )

 Chávez’s work and legacy, Dalton effectively employs a narrative approach to make the case that Chávez’s moral vision of the dignity of human labor was sustained by a lifelong process of character formation anchored in the virtues of nonviolent love, faith, justice, and solidarity.  He found in Gandhi’s praxis a confirmation of the ascetical values of his own Christian faith and consequently directed his life and the farm workers’ movement toward the truth of working for justice out of self-sacrificial love.