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Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit (Volume 11) (The Oklahoma Western Biographies) Trade paperback - 1995
by Richard Griswold del Castillo,Richard A. Garcia
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- Title Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit (Volume 11) (The Oklahoma Western Biographies)
- Author Richard Griswold del Castillo,Richard A. Garcia
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma
- Date September 1995
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 203348
- ISBN 9780806129570 / 0806129573
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.46 x 0.65 in (21.59 x 13.87 x 1.65 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Chavez, Cesar, Labor leaders - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95015230
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
This biography of Chavez by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia is the first to approach Chavez's life - his courageous acts, his turning points, his many perceived personas - in the context of Chicano and American history. It reveals a shy, quiet man who was launched by events into a maelstrom of campesino strikes, religious fervor, and nonviolent battles for justice. Among his friends and supporters he counted Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and millions across America who rallied to his cause. In Griswold del Castillo and Garcia's biography, Chavez's life mirrors major events in Mexican American history: Mexican immigration during the 1920s; forced repatriation in the 1930s; segregation in public schools; Mexican American contributions during World War II; the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles; formation of Mexican American organizations to advance civil and political rights; the Chicano movement of the 1960s and early 1970s; the emergence of a conservative political backlash in the 1980s; and, finally, the "new immigration" in the 1990s. Cesar Chavez was touched by all these events, and his story is both private and part of a collective experience.