This legislation authorizes the Department of Interior to conduct a special resources study to examine the areas that Cesar Estrada Chavez lived for potential incorporation into the National Park Service. Cesar Estrada Chavez was a humble man who knew the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Raised during the Great Depression. Chavezs family lost everything and he was forced to wander the southwestern United States with thousands of other farmworker families. As a migrant farmworker he learned the value of community and family. Farmworkers were united as they fought to survive in the often harsh working and living conditions of the migrant life. Chavez eventually left the fields in 1952 and began to campaign peacefully against racial and economic discrimination. In 1962.