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I said yes to everything

a memoir
2014
Lee Grant chroncles her life and her career as a stage and movie actress, a director, and a producer.

Side by side : the story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez =

Lado a lado : la historia de Dolores Huerta y Cesar Chavez
Describes how Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez worked together to motivate migrant farm workers to fight for their rights.

Scientific temperaments

three lives in contemporary science
1982
Discusses Robert Wilson, the particle physicist who built the Fermilab Accelerator; Mark Ptashne, who made a lifetime study of the lambda virus; and John McCarthy, who is a major contributor in the field of artificial intelligence.

Journey of conscience

young people respond to the Holocaust
1979

Kienholz

tableau drawings
2001

Cesar Chavez

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.
Cover image of Cesar Chavez

Althea Gibson

Follows the life of the first black woman to win the tennis competition at Wimbledon.
Cover image of Althea Gibson

In the castle of my skin

Recreates the author's childhood and adolescence in Barbados to the eve of his departure to Trinidad at seventeen.

C?esar

s?i, se puede! = Yes, we can!
2004
Tells the life story of C?esar Ch?avez, whose efforts as a labor leader in the mid-twentieth century brought better working conditions to migrant farmworkers in the U.S.

They led the way

2006
Presents a collection of brief biographical sketches of individuals that were leaders, including Elizabeth Blackwell, Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller, and Jackie Robinson, describing their accomplishments.

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