agricultural laborers

The author describes the personal challenges he faced while trying to continue his education, and his guilt over going off to college after his father returned to Mexico, leaving his family in poverty.

When their father insists that they lack "life experiences," teenaged brothers Gabriel and Gustavo reluctantly agree to a family vacation in a California migrant camp, where the boys pick crops and learn about immigrant labor and prejudice within the Hispanic community.

Story of the son of poor Mexican Americans and his lifelong struggle for the rights of migrant farm workers.

Follows four generations of the Sandoval family who have immigrated from Mexico to the United States.

A biography of C?sar Ch?vez, the Mexican American labor leader who organized California's farm workers into the United Farm Workers union.

Combines archival photographs of Cesar Chavez and the people with whom he worked with information about his life and accomplishments.

A simple biography of the man who worked to win fairer treatment of the migrant farm workers in California in the 1960s and to establish the United Farm Workers union, presented in English and Spanish.

Presents the life of the first woman organizer for the United Farm Workers.

The twelve-year-old daughter of an agricultural laborer sees hope for a better life if she can only figure a way to attend the special school opened in the barrio.