agricultural laborers

"Learn how Cesar (Chavez) fought to make the United States a fairer, safer place to work and live. Readers will see how to use interviewing skills and journalistic questions to reveal the story behind a famous American"--Amazon.com.

Provides a look at the lives of former African-American farmworkers who labored in central Florida's farms along the shores of Lake Apopka that had been heavy treated with pesticides, and discusses the history of Lake Apopka and the social and environmental injustice centered on food production that has taken place there.

Tells the life story of American farm worker and labor leader C?sar Ch?vez in graphic novel format.

Collects twelve essays and first-person narratives that examine the life and accomplishments of labor leader and social justice advocate C?sar Ch?vez.

Offers a nuanced account of the life of the migrant worker whose ground-breaking work as an organizer and labor leader made him a national icon, looking at both the achievements and flaws that defined the man.

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.