Presents a biography of Cesar Chavez, who in the 1960s founded the National Association of Agricultural Workers in order to provide better wages and working conditions for migrant workers.
Contains a first-hand account of growing up as a poor Mexican immigrant in a rural California farming town in the 1960s, chronicling the struggles to learn English, to fit in with schoolmates, and to bridge tensions between a traditional home life and the new world outside.
Examines the life of Cesar Chavez, the union activist who led the struggle of migrant farm workers for better working conditions in the mid-twentieth century.
Simple text and photographs depict the life of the Mexican American labor leader who achieved justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.
