Book Description
An easy-to-read biography of the Mexican American who organized the agricultural laborers' struggles for better pay and working conditions.
Author : Florence Meiman White
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Strikes and lockouts
ISBN :
An easy-to-read biography of the Mexican American who organized the agricultural laborers' struggles for better pay and working conditions.
Author : Cesar P. Cala
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Mexican Americans
ISBN :
Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823423835
Presents a portrait of the personal life and career as a labor leader of Cesar Chavez, who helped to organize the mostly Mexican American migrant farm workers and led the struggle for social justice of the United Farm Workers.
Author : J. L. Matthews
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780736895286
Readers of all ability levels will want to read these high-low books from 5 high-interest nonfiction subject areas: sports, history, biography, adventure, and science. Each easy-to-read book explores a fascinating narrative account of the subject. This all-new series features historical photographs, full-color graphics, glossary words on each page, and a contemporary chapter-book format. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : David Goodwin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0307819515
The son of poor Mexican Americans, Cesar Chavez grew up in grinding poverty. In 1962, he set out to do what many before him had tried and failed to do -- organize a trade union for farm workers. With courage and determination, he transformed the plight of the workers into an international cause.
Author : Richard Griswold del Castillo
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806129570
Explores the growth and development of the farm labor organizer
Author : Susan Samuels Drake
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
This is a true and accurate depiction of Cesar Chavez and the history of the migrant farmworker, in poetic form, by Susan Samuels Drake, secretary to Cesar Chavez at the height of the farm workers' struggle to unionize.
Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2008-06-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1439108897
¡Viva la causa! ¡Viva César Chávez! Up and down the San Joaquin Valley of California, and across the country, people chanted these words. Cesar Chavez, a migrant worker himself, was helping Mexican Americans work together for better wages, for better working conditions, for better lives. No one thought they could win against the rich and powerful growers. But Cesar was out to prove them wrong -- and that he did.
Author : Miriam Pawel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 160819714X
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the California Book Award A searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an acclaimed history of Chavez's movement. Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders of the 20th century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains the most significant Latino leader in US history. Yet his life story has been told only in hagiography-until now. In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary figure with tragic flaws; a brilliant strategist who sometimes stumbled; and a canny, streetwise organizer whose pragmatism was often at odds with his elusive, soaring dreams. He was an experimental thinker with eclectic passions-an avid, self-educated historian and a disciple of Gandhian non-violent protest. Drawing on thousands of documents and scores of interviews, this superbly written life deepens our understanding of one of Chavez's most salient qualities: his profound humanity. Pawel traces Chavez's remarkable career as he conceived strategies that empowered the poor and vanquished California's powerful agriculture industry, and his later shift from inspirational leadership to a cult of personality, with tragic consequences for the union he had built. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez reveals how this most unlikely American hero ignited one of the great social movements of our time.
Author : David Goodwin (Writer on politics)
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The son of poor Mexican Americans, Cesar Chavez grew up in grinding poverty. In 1962, he set out to do what many before him had tried and failed to do -- organize a trade union for farm workers. With courage and determination, he transformed the plight of the workers into an international cause.