Book Description
Complements the editors' earlier study, The rhetorical career of César Chávez.
Author : Cesar Chavez
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781585441709
Complements the editors' earlier study, The rhetorical career of César Chávez.
Author : Sarah Machajewski
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 148244061X
Cesar Chavez was one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century. His story, from migrant field worker to champion of the voiceless, is a fascinating one that resonates today. Readers will be able to learn about the man Robert F. Kennedy called one of the heroic figures of our time through this account which interweaves Chavezs own words throughout the biographical text. Historic photographs bring the man to life, while sidebars and fact boxes offer more background information on his important work.
Author : Kathleen Krull
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152014377
The true story of a shy boy who grew up to be one of America's greatest civilrights leaders is told in this picture book biography. Full color.
Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,26 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 : Miriam Pawel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 15,25 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 : Jeri Cipriano
Publisher : Red Chair Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1634409736
As a child, Cesar Chavez worked on farms with his family. He felt the workers were not treated well. Cesar used his voice to become a leader in making sure farm workers were paid better and treated fairly.
Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 19,86 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 : Jagger Youssef
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 9781642824582
The life story of Cesar Chavez, one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century, resonates today. In this significant biography, readers will learn about the man who rose from migrant field worker to become a champion of the voiceless. The narrative interweaves Chavez's own powerful words throughout accessible biographical text. Historical photographs bring the fascinating figure to life, while interesting sidebars and fact boxes offer more background information about both the times in which he lived and his important work.
Author : Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101995602
Learn more about Cesar Chavez, the famous Latino American civil rights activist. When he was young, Cesar and his Mexican American family toiled in the fields as migrant farm workers. He knew all too well the hardships farm workers faced. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. Along with Dolores Huerta, he cofounded the National Farmworkers Association. His dedication to his work earned him numerous friends and supporters, including Robert Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.
Author : Randy Shaw
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520268040
Much has been written about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' heyday in the 1960s and '70s, but the story of their profound, ongoing influence on 21st century social justice movements has until now been left untold. This book unearths this legacy.