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1) Cesar Chavez
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48 pages : illustrations some color ; 22 cm.
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English
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See how Cesar Chavez helped improve working conditions and payment for farmworkers in the 1960s.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
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English
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"Cesar Chavez dedicated his life to helping American farmworkers. As a child growing up in California during the Great Depression, he picked produce with his family. Cesar saw firsthand how unfairly workers were treated. As an adult, he organized farmworkers into unions and argued for better pay and fair working conditions. He was jailed for his efforts, but he never stopped urging people to stand up for their rights."--Amazon.com.
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32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
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English
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Presents a short biography of Cesar Chavez, and chronicles his childhood in Arizona and migration to California during the Great Depression, his encounters with discrimination that led him to organize the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, and his fight against grape growers.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Something special happened when Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez met. Together, they fought for the rights of countless farmworkers. Side by side, inspiring hope, they changed history.
Algo especial sucedió cuando Dolores Huerta y César Chávez se conocieron. Ellos lucharon juntos por los derechos de los campesinos. Lado a lado cultivaron esperanza, cambiando el curso de la historia.
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63 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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""Viva La Huelga! Viva La Causa!" Discover the true story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, as he and the National Farm Workers Association set out on an incredible three-hundred-mile protest march in support of farmworkers' rights."--
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