Cesar Chavez

Title Cesar Chavez
Names Rodriguez, Consuelo.
Book Number DB040724
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Book
Annotation When Cesar Chavez was a boy in Yuma, Arizona, where he was born, he learned that it was his duty to help the poor. But he also learned what it meant to be poor when his Mexican American family became migrant farm workers during the depression. Such first-hand experiences made him determined to organize farm workers without resorting to violence and to get a contract to ensure decent working conditions and fair wages. For grades 5-8 and older readers.
Series Various. Hispanics of Achievement
Narrator Zeiger, Jim.
Local Subject Young Adult Book - YA
Young Adult Non-Fiction - YN
Biography & Autobiography - BIO
History, United States - HUS
History - HST
Biography - Political, U.S - BIPU
Hispanic Interest - HSI
Short Book - SH
Audience Notes For grades 5-8.
Male narrator.
LC Subject Labor leaders - Juvenile literature
Mexican American labor union members - Juvenile literature
Mexican Americans - Biography - Juvenile literature
Migrant agricultural laborers - United States - Officials and employees - Biography - Juvenile literature
Migrant labor - Juvenile literature
Call Number j331.8813092 B JNF
Language English
Released 1991
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1991
Original Publication Recorded from: New York : Chelsea House, c1991.
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