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America's social arsonist : Fred Ross and grassroots organizing in the twentieth century / Gabriel Thompson.
LIBRA HN79.C23 C684 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Gabriel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ross, Fred, 1910-1992.
- Ross, Fred.
- Community Service Organization--History.
- Community Service Organization.
- Community activists--California--Biography.
- Community activists.
- Community organization--California--History--20th century.
- Community organization.
- Immigrants--Civil rights--California--History--20th century.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Civil rights.
- History.
- California.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Education of an Organizer (1910-1947)
- 1 All That You Do, Do with Your Might 9
- 2 Dealing Firsthand with the Rotten System 19
- 3 Witness to The Grapes of Wrath 32
- 4 Doing Penance 48
- 5 The Mexican Problem 63
- 6 Red Ross 75
- Part 2 Organizing a Movement (1947-1963)
- 7 Viva Roybal 85
- 8 Bloody Christmas 98
- 9 Finding Cesar 109
- 10 On the Road 118
- 11 Growing Pains 131
- 12 The Life and Death of the CSO 140
- Part 3 Organizer as Teacher (1964-1992)
- 13 Poverty Fiasco 153
- 14 David vs. Goliath 173
- 15 Don't Buy Grapes 188
- 16 The Battle of the Butcher Paper 199
- 17 Blind Spot 210
- 18 The Forever Project 226.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520280830
- 0520280830
- OCLC:
- 919068317
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