agricultural laborers

Presents a short biography of Cesar Chavez, the founder of the United Farm Workers of America, and describes how he fought to establish better working conditions and wages for migrant workers in California.

A book of poems, presented in Spanish and English, about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one poem for each letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Francisco Jimenez, the son of Mexican immigrants, describes the challenges he faced as a student at Santa Clara University in California in the 1960s.

Text and photographs present the true accounts of migrant children field workers of the twentieth century.

Provides a simple biography of Cesar Chavez, focusing on his efforts to help unionize migrant workers. Includes color photographs, a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.

A history of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers movement.

During his college years, the very family solidarity that allows Francisco to survive as a child is tested. Not only must he leave his family when he goes to Santa Clara University, but while Francisco is there, his father abandons the family and returns to Mexico.

"A timely . . . edition of a . . . work in Latino literature, National Book Award nominee Gary Soto's first collection (originally published in 1977) draws on California's fertile San Joaquin Valley, the people, the place, and the hard agricultural work done there by immigrants. In these poems, joy and anger, violence and hope are placed in both the metaphorical and very real circumstances of the Valley. Rooted in personal experiences--of the poet as a young man, his friends, family, and neighbors--the poems are spare but expansive. This . . . edition has been expanded with a . . . selection of complementary poems (some previously unpublished) and an . .. introduction by the author"--Provided by publisher.

The author describes his experiences as a young immigrant pursuing his education during the 1950s and 1960s.

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.