The Words of César Chávez
Author: Cesar Chavez
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781585441709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Complements the editors' earlier study, The rhetorical career of César Chávez.
Author: Cesar Chavez
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781585441709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Complements the editors' earlier study, The rhetorical career of César Chávez.
Author: Sarah Machajewski
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 148244061X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780152014377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Miriam Pawel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-03-25
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 160819714X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 A. Adler
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780823423835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-02-07
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1101995602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Jeri Cipriano
Publisher: Red Chair Press
Published: 2020-08-01
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 1634409736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2008-06-25
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 1439108897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →¡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: Roger Bruns
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2005-09-30
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0313062129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cesar Chavez, the labor organizer and founder of the United Farm Workers of America, was, perhaps, an unlikely hero. In this biography, his early life is shown to be fairly typical for a boy in a close-knit family of Mexican Americans who worked the land in Arizona and California and endured hardship and discrimination. His story reveals the underside of the American Dream, and his later successes in helping farm workers and building a union to represent them are a testament to something extraordinary in a seemingly ordinary man. As a young man, Chavez looked for a way out of the fields in the Navy but only found similar ethnic hatred. He married and started a family soon after his discharge and returned to the fields. Chavez hated the injustices meted out to his family and other migrant workers. They were on American labor's last rung, thousands of individuals making a pittance for their back-breaking work, living in desperate and inhumane conditions, poisoned by the pesticides, with few rights or leaders on whom to lean. The migrant workers found a champion in Chavez, who started to see the possibilities of making a difference for those in need. He began to work for a social service agency in California and met a priest who inspired him to read and learn about figures such as Mohandas Gandhi. From that point on, his labor activism is legendary. In the context of the times, with the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, and race riots raging, Chavez is shown to slowly build the farm workers labor movement, along with colleagues such as Dolores Huerta. Using the nonviolent examples of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., from the 1960s until his death in 1993, Chavez launched strikes, boycotts, marches, and his famous hunger strikes to force concessions from the big growers for better conditions and pay for the workers. His union lobbied Congress on behalf of the farm workers. Chavez and his supporters faced police and grower brutality, government surveillance, and death threats, and he was jailed several times. Like Gandhi, his example is for the ages.
Author: Sarah Machajewski
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1482440903
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.