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Author Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993.

Title An organizer's tale : speeches / Cesar Chavez ; edited with an introduction by Ilan Stavans.

Imprint New York : Penguin Group, 2008.

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 Southington Library - Adult  331.88 CHA    Check Shelf
Description xliv, 238 pages ; 20 cm.
Series Penguin classics
Penguin classics.
Contents We shall overcome -- On the NFWA -- A penitential procession -- The plan of Delano -- An organizer's tale -- Recapping the mission -- Marcher -- An age of miracles -- Chicanos and the church -- After the fast -- Before the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare -- Good Friday letter -- Creative nonviolence -- Before the Senate -- The union and the strike -- Sharing the wealth -- No more cathedrals -- At Harvard -- Jesus's friendship -- An assortment of responses -- Forty acres -- Twenty days in jail -- Nothing has changed -- At Riverside Church -- At Exposition Park -- On money -- Why Delano -- To be a man is to suffer for others -- Do we exist? -- Regaining the strength -- Nan Freeman -- Juan de la Cruz -- In Coachella -- After a bus accident -- Before the automobile workers -- Martin Luther King Jr. I -- Martin Luther King Jr. II -- Rufino Contreras -- What is democracy? -- René López -- Before the 7th UFWA Constitutional Convention -- At the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco -- Wrath of grapes -- At Pacific Lutheran University -- On public schools -- Sal Si Puedes -- Juana Estrada Chavez -- Fred Ross.
Summary This extensive collection of Chavez's speeches and writings chronicles his progression and development as a leader, and includes previously unpublished material.
Subject Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993.
United Farm Workers -- History -- 20th century.
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993. (OCoLC)fst01434630
United Farm Workers. (OCoLC)fst00514492
Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers -- History -- 20th century.
Labor leaders. (OCoLC)fst00990029
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers. (OCoLC)fst01018993
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Labor unions. (OCoLC)fst01020696
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Stavans, Ilan.
ISBN 9780143105268
0143105264
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