Author: MATTHIESSEN, PETER
Title: Sal Si Puedes Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
Description: New York, NY: Random House, 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some edge wear, nicking and small nicks to the spine ends and a couple of small creases to the front dust jacket flap. "Born in Yuma, Arizona to a Mexican American family, Chavez began his working life as a manual laborer before spending two years in the United States Navy. Relocating to California, where he married, he got involved in the Community Service Organization (CSO) , through which he helped laborers register to vote. In 1959, he became the CSO's national director, a position based in Los Angeles. In 1962, he left the CSO to co-found the NFWA, based in Delano, California, through which he launched an insurance scheme, a credit union, and the El Malcriado newspaper for farmworkers. Later that decade he began organizing strikes among farmworkers, most notably the successful Delano grape strike of 1965–1970. Amid the grape strike his NFWA merged with Larry Itliong's AWOC to form the UFW in 1967. I" (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Biography Peter Matthiessen Cesar Chavez United Farm Workers Unions California Farmworkers
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Title: Sal Si Puedes Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
Description: New York, NY: Random House, 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some edge wear, nicking and small nicks to the spine ends and a couple of small creases to the front dust jacket flap. "Born in Yuma, Arizona to a Mexican American family, Chavez began his working life as a manual laborer before spending two years in the United States Navy. Relocating to California, where he married, he got involved in the Community Service Organization (CSO) , through which he helped laborers register to vote. In 1959, he became the CSO's national director, a position based in Los Angeles. In 1962, he left the CSO to co-found the NFWA, based in Delano, California, through which he launched an insurance scheme, a credit union, and the El Malcriado newspaper for farmworkers. Later that decade he began organizing strikes among farmworkers, most notably the successful Delano grape strike of 1965–1970. Amid the grape strike his NFWA merged with Larry Itliong's AWOC to form the UFW in 1967. I" (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Biography Peter Matthiessen Cesar Chavez United Farm Workers Unions California Farmworkers
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 45135
- Book number: 45135
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