The words of César Chávez / edited by Richard J. Jensen, John C. Hammerback. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993.

Contributor:

Jensen, Richard J. (Richard Jay), 1943-

Hammerback, John C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993--Oratory.

Chavez, Cesar.

Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993.

Discourse analysis.

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Labor leaders--United States.

Labor leaders.

Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers.

Migrant agricultural laborers--Labor unions--United States.

Migrant agricultural laborers.

Mexican American labor union members.

United Farm Workers--History--Sources.

United Farm Workers.

Discourse analysis--Labor unions--United States.

Persuasion (Rhetoric)--United States.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 199 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of speeches and writings by the Mexican American labor activist and head of the United Farm Workers.

Contents:

César Chávez talks about organizing and about the history of the NFWA, December 1965

Sacramento March Letter, March 1966

Plan of Delano (English and Spanish versions), 1966

Chávez speech at solidarity house, April 1, 1967

César Chávez talks in New York, 1968

Good Friday letter, 1969

Testimony before the subcommittee of labor of the Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Public Welfare, April 16, 1969

Chávez at Austin, Texas, February 6, 1971

Speech at Exposition Park, May 2, 1971

César Chávez on money and organizing, October 4, 1971

Chávez at the University of Santa Clara, October 26, 1972

Speech in Coachella, 1973

Speech at Convention of International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Los Angeles, June 1974

Nomination address for Governor Jerry Brown, Democratic National Convention, July 14, 1976

César Chávez goes home, June 25, 1978

Martin Luther King, Jr.: he showed us the way, April 1978

Summary of the president's address to the Texas organizing convocation, Pharr, Texas, February 25, 1979

Notes for Speech to the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, 1981

Notes for speech to graduating negotiations class, 1982

Address to the UFW's 7th Constitutional Convention, September 1984

Address to the commonwealth club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984

Speech to the Los Angeles County Chicano Employee Association, October 25, 1985

Wrath of grapes boycott speech, 1986

United Farm Workers of America: pecan workers speech, Arizona, 1987 (English and Spanish versions)

Speech at Pacific Lutheran University, March 1989

Statement from César Chávez, Sacramento, April 3, 1991

Address before the building industry association of northern California, San Jose, November 21, 1991

Speech ending fast, March 10, 1968

Statement by César Chávez at the end of his twenty-four-day fast for justice, Phoenix, Arizona, June 4, 1972

Statement ending fast, Delano, California, August 21, 1988

Eulogy for Juana Estrada Chávez, San Jose, California, December 18, 1991

Eulogy for Fred Ross, San Francisco, October 17, 1992

Eulogy for Nan Freeman, 1972

Eulogy for Juan de la Cruz, Arvin, California, August 21, 1973

Eulogy for Rufino Contreras, Calexico, California, February 14, 1979

Eulogy for Rene López, Fresno, California, September 1983.

Notes:

Complements the editors' earlier study, The rhetorical career of César Chávez.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-191) and index.

ISBN:

1-58544-962-8