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César Chávez : a voice for farmworkers / Bárbara C. Cruz.
Lippincott Library HD6509.C48 C78 2005
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cruz, Bárbara.
- Series:
- Latino biography library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993--Juvenile literature.
- Chavez, Cesar.
- Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993.
- United Farm Workers--History--Juvenile literature.
- United Farm Workers.
- United Farm Workers--History.
- Labor leaders--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Labor leaders.
- Migrant agricultural laborers.
- History.
- United States.
- Migrant agricultural laborers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Mexican Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexican Americans--Biography.
- Labor leaders--United States--Biography.
- Migrant agricultural laborers--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Literature.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, [2005]
- Summary:
- As a boy, Cesar Chavez picked peas, grapes, and other crops in the hot sun. It was a life of exhaustion, poverty, and despair. His experiences as a migrant farm worker had a profound effect on Chavez. With a strong belief in nonviolence, Chavez staged boycotts, strikes, and other protests to bring national attention to the terrible working and living conditions of the farm workers. He organized a labor union, which became the United Farm Workers Union, to demand higher pay and better treatment. Cesar Chavez never earned much money. He never owned a car or a house. He was simply an ordinary man with extraordinary vision and commitment.
- Contents:
- "A living saint"
- Growing up
- Migrant life
- Sal si puedes
- Organizing to fight injustice
- La causa is born
- Huelga!
- Opposition
- Later years
- Chavez's legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780766024892
- 076602489X
- OCLC:
- 57005793
- Publisher Number:
- 99990734149
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