Which organization was founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and broadened into a national civil rights movement?

Which organization was founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and broadened into a national civil rights movement?

• A. National Farm Workers Union
• B. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
• C. United Farm Workers (UFW)
• D. American Federation of Labor

Answer: (C)

This question tests how Cesar Chavez transformed farm labor organizing into a wider civil rights effort. Chavez helped start the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 with Dolores Huerta, focusing on organizing farm workers. That group later joined with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and became the United Farm Workers in 1966, signaling a shift from a state-focused labor effort to a nationwide movement. The UFW broadened its reach, linking farm workers’ rights to the broader civil rights agenda and using nonviolent tactics—like strikes, boycotts, and marches—to draw national attention to conditions in agriculture. This expansion into a countrywide movement is what makes United Farm Workers the best answer. As for the other options, they don’t fit because they refer to different entities: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is a separate, broad labor union not started by Chavez in 1962 and not the farm workers’ national civil rights movement; the American Federation of Labor is an older federation, unrelated to Chavez’s farm labor organizing; and while the National Farm Workers Union echoes Chavez’s work, the organization that truly broadened into a national civil rights movement under his leadership is the United Farm Workers.

This question tests how Cesar Chavez transformed farm labor organizing into a wider civil rights effort. Chavez helped start the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 with Dolores Huerta, focusing on organizing farm workers. That group later joined with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and became the United Farm Workers in 1966, signaling a shift from a state-focused labor effort to a nationwide movement. The UFW broadened its reach, linking farm workers’ rights to the broader civil rights agenda and using nonviolent tactics—like strikes, boycotts, and marches—to draw national attention to conditions in agriculture. This expansion into a countrywide movement is what makes United Farm Workers the best answer.

As for the other options, they don’t fit because they refer to different entities: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is a separate, broad labor union not started by Chavez in 1962 and not the farm workers’ national civil rights movement; the American Federation of Labor is an older federation, unrelated to Chavez’s farm labor organizing; and while the National Farm Workers Union echoes Chavez’s work, the organization that truly broadened into a national civil rights movement under his leadership is the United Farm Workers.