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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle is the first film to cover the full arc of Cesar Chávez’s life. Using archival footage, newsreel, and present-day interviews with Ethel Kennedy, former California Governor Jerry Brown, Dolores Huerta, and Chávez’s brother, sister, son, and daughter, the documentary traces the remarkable contributions of Chávez and ...
This 350 page book with over 100 black and white photos is a biography of the inspiring leader of the movement that brought civil rights to America's migrant farmworkers. The book includes guest essays by Carey McWilliams, Victor Villasenor, Alfredo Vea, Jr., Peter Matthiessen, Rudolfo Anaya, and others. The book is published by Harcourt-Brace ...
16 de abr. de 1997 · This documentary traces the history of the United Farmworkers Union and the life of its founder, Cesar Chavez, from his birth in Arizona, his education into organizing and non-violence, his formation of the union, to his death in 1993. It includes newsreel footage of the Delano grape boycott, Senate hearings conducted by Robert F. Kennedy ...
5 de mar. de 2021 · The fight in the fields : Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers movement by Ferriss, Susan. Publication date 1997 Topics Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993, United Farm Workers -- History, Labor leaders -- United States -- Biography, Migrant agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History, Mexican American migrant agricultural ...
We’ve set off walking, in the blistering heat, to the United Farm Workers of America compound at Forty Acres, just outside Delano. In the distance, Cesar Chavez lies in an open coffin beneath a mammoth canvas tent. The muffled voice of a priest reciting the rosary wafts our way, the sound blaring one moment, then nearly extinguished.
El Cortito, “the short one,” was a hoe that was only twenty-four inches long, forcing the farmworkers who used it to bend and stoop all day long—a position that often led to lifelong, debilitating back injuries. The pool-room meeting with a handful of its victims led Jourdane to try working in nearby fields for two days.
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