Cesar Chavez
Subtitle: labor leader
By: David Seidman.
Series: Great life stories
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Chavez, Cesar, 1927- -- Juvenile literature.; Chavez, Cesar, 1927-; United Farm Workers -- History -- Juvenile literature.; United Farm Workers.; Migrant agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- United States -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Labor leaders -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Labor leaders.; Mexican Americans -- Biography.; Migrant labor.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: Discusses the life and work of Cesar Chavez, an American labor leader who organized the farm worker's union, United Farm Workers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Planting the seeds; title: The wanderer; title: Rising to the top; title: La Causa; title: Picketing, boycotting, and marching; title: More, bigger, and bloodier; title: Endings and beginnings; title: Decline and revival; title: Losses; title: Death and rebirth.