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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement

A "vivid, well-documented account of the farmworkers movement"(Philadelphia Inquirer) and its prime mover, Cesar Chavez. Edited by Diana Hembree with a foreword by Gary Soto and essays by Carey McWilliams, Victor Villasenor, Alfredo Vea, Jr., Peter Matthiessen, Rudolfo Anaya, and others. Black-and-white photographs throughout.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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