Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justicia (English and Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Griswold Del Castillo, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155885424X ISBN 13: 9781558854246

Publisher: Arte Publico Press, 2008

Synopsis

When farm worker and labor organizer Cesar Chavez burst upon America's national scene in 1965, U.S. readers and viewers were witnessing the emergence of a new Mexican American, or Chicano, movement. This biography of Chavez by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia is the first to approach Chavez's life -- his courageous acts, his turning points, his many received personas -- in the context of Chicano and American history.

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From the Publisher:

Through bold colors and true-to-life illustrations, César Chávez' life is laid out for young children and their parents to share in a discussion of the life of a visionary Latino figure who cultivated the roots of our culture.

From the Back Cover:

This biography of Chavez by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia is the first to approach Chavez's life - his courageous acts, his turning points, his many perceived personas - in the context of Chicano and American history. It reveals a shy, quiet man who was launched by events into a maelstrom of campesino strikes, religious fervor, and nonviolent battles for justice. Among his friends and supporters he counted Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and millions across America who rallied to his cause. In Griswold del Castillo and Garcia's biography, Chavez's life mirrors major events in Mexican American history: Mexican immigration during the 1920s; forced repatriation in the 1930s; segregation in public schools; Mexican American contributions during World War II; the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles; formation of Mexican American organizations to advance civil and political rights; the Chicano movement of the 1960s and early 1970s; the emergence of a conservative political backlash in the 1980s; and, finally, the "new immigration" in the 1990s. Cesar Chavez was touched by all these events, and his story is both private and part of a collective experience.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 155885424X
• ISBN 13: 9781558854246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Accardo Anthony