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61) The fight in the fields: Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers' struggle

Author

Telles, Ray

Publisher

Distributed by Cinema Guild

Pub. Date

2007

Language

English

Description

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The story of Cesar Chavez, founder of the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Examines the grape and lettuce boycotts and the non-violent movements of the 1960s and 1970s; these confronted conservative politicians and the Teamsters Union and inspired Chicano activism. Uses archival footage, newsreels, and contemporary interviews with activists, politicians, and Chavez family members.

62) The grapes of wrath and other writings, 1936-1941

Author

Steinbeck, John

Publisher

Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA

Pub. Date

1996

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

63) Merchants of labor: the Mexican bracero story : an account of the managed migration of Mexican farm workers in California 1942-1960

Author

Galarza, Ernesto

Publisher

McNally and Loftin

Pub. Date

c1964

Language

English

64) Mexican and Mexican American farm workers: the California agricultural industry

Author

Gonzales, Juan L

Publisher

Praeger

Pub. Date

c1985

Language

English

65) This bittersweet soil: the Chinese in California agriculture, 1860-1910

Author

Chan, Sucheng

Publisher

University of California Press

Pub. Date

c1986

Language

English

66) Fascism, communism, & collective bargaining: the Salinas Lettuce Strike of 1936

Author

Lambert, Melissa Christine

Publisher

Stanford University

Pub. Date

2002]

Language

English

67) An organizer's tale: speeches

Author

Chavez, Cesar

Publisher

Penguin Group

Pub. Date

2008

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

68) The circuit: stories from the life of a migrant child

Author

Jimenez, Francisco

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Pub. Date

1997

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Description

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These stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots-- and back again-- over a number of years.

69) 분노의 포도, 2

Author

Steinbeck, John

Publisher

[publisher not identified]

Pub. Date

2008

Language

English

Description

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An astonishing novel following a poor family of sharecroppers as they travel to California in search of a better life.

70) 분노의 포도, 1

Author

Steinbeck, John

Publisher

[publisher not identified]

Pub. Date

2008

Language

English

Description

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An astonishing novel following a poor family of sharecroppers as they travel to California in search of a better life.

71) En dudosa batalla

Author

Steinbeck, John

Series

Para leer en libertad

Publisher

Gobierno del Distrito Federal

Pub. Date

2000

Language

Español

72) Bitmeyen kavga

Author

Steinbeck, John

Publisher

Oda Yayinlari

Pub. Date

1995

Language

Türkçe

73) An elegy on the death of Cesar Chavez: by Rudolfo Anaya ; with illustrations by Gaspar Enriquez

Author

Anaya, Rudolfo A

Publisher

Cinco Puntos Press

Pub. Date

c2000

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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A poem eulogizing the Mexican American labor activist Cesar Chavez and his work helping organize migrant farm workers.

74) The words of César Chávez

Author

Chavez, Cesar

Publisher

Texas A & M University Press

Pub. Date

c2002

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

75) Side by side : the story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez =: Lado a lado : la historia de Dolores Huerta y Cesar Chavez

Author

Brown, Monica

Publisher

HarerCollinsEspanol/Quill Tree Books, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

Description

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Describes the partnership between Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez, the founding of the National Farm Workers Association, and their combined efforts to improve working conditions for agricultural laborers. Presented in English and Spanish.

76) Cesar Chavez: lucha por los trabajadores del campo

Author

Braun, Eric

Publisher

Capstone Press

Pub. Date

c2007

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

Español

Description

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Biography of Cesar Chavez, a labor leader who organized boycotts to gain fair working conditions for farm workers. In graphic novel format.

77) Of mice and men

Author

Steinbeck, John

Series

The Modern library
Penguin classics
Penguin Audio Classics

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway, Reference

Description

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In depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.