Dear Mr. Barr,

… This letter does not express all that is in my

heart, Mr. Barr. But if it says nothing else it says

that we do not hate you or rejoice to see your

industry destroyed; we hate the agribusiness

system [agricultural corporations] that seeks to

keep us enslaved and we shall overcome and

change it not by retaliation or bloodshed but by a

determined nonviolent struggle carried on by

those masses of farm workers who intend to be

free and human.

Sincerely yours,

Cesar E. Chavez

— Cesar Chavez, letter to E.L. Barr Jr.,

Good Friday, 1969, in Andrew Carroll, ed.,

Letters of a Nation, Broadway Books

Which action did Cesar Chavez take that is most

consistent with the theme of this excerpt?

(1) organizing a farmworkers union

(2) calling for stricter enforcement of

immigration laws

(3) asking Congress to pass legislation for lowincome housing

(4) promoting the takeover of large corporations

by farmworkers