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Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez: The Farm Workers' Fight for Rights and Justice

Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez: The Farm Workers' Fight for Rights and Justice

Bruns, Roger

Paperback

Series: Movements of the American Mosaic

Latino StudiesSocial Movements

ISBN13: 9798765120842
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 22 2024
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

This book is a unique, single-volume treatment offering original source material on the life, accomplishments, disappointments, and lasting legacy of one of American history's most celebrated social reformers-Cesar Chavez.

Two decades after Cesar Chavez's death, this timely book chronicles the drive for a union of one of American society's most exploited groups-farm workers. Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez is a valuable one-volume source based on the most recent research and available documentation. Historian Roger Bruns documents how Chavez and his United Farm Workers (UFW), against formidable odds, organized farm laborers into a force that for the first time successfully took on the might of California's agribusiness interests to achieve greater wages and better working conditions.

Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, a time of assassinations, war protests, civil rights battles, and reform efforts for poor and minority citizens, the approximately 100 entries in this encyclopedia provide a glimpse into the events, organizations, men and women, and recurring themes that impacted the life of Cesar Chavez. It also contains a section of primary documentation-useful not only to enhance the understanding of this social and political movement, but also as source material for students.

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