To serve the people : my life organizing with Cesar Chavez and the poor
Record details
- ISBN: 9780826360878
- ISBN: 9780826360885
- ISBN: 0826360882
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 249 pages)
remote - Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | From Colusa -- Boarding school, 1948 -- LeRoy, merry Christmas! -- Observe, judge, act -- Are you Democrat or Republican? -- My journal: Mexico City (excerpts) -- Bakersfield to Boston to Delano, 1963 -- Brother Gilbert's appeal letter, 1965 -- The Delano grape strike -- Farmworker volunteers -- Stop the grapes -- Pushing the buttons -- Strike violence vs. nonviolence -- The fast -- Kern County courthouse cathedral -- Bobby -- On movement leaders -- My journal : Delano (excerpts) -- Letter from Delano (with growers' response) -- La paz -- Jerry Brown says, "I'm not God!" -- Taking the blame -- Legislation vs. movement -- Eulogy for Cesar -- My prophecy, 1993 -- Helen Chavez : a tribute -- The organizer -- What is the answer? -- Guests, not clients -- Clean and sober -- Cherry-picking -- A public fast -- There is no OK place to be -- A bird in the hand -- Farmworker Movement Documentation Project -- Management maxims -- Afterword: Cesar Chavez, 1927-1993 : twenty-five years and counting. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 07, 2019). |
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