labor leaders

Looks at the life of Cesar Chavez and discusses his work to unionize and ensure the rights of migrant farm workers.

A biography of the union activist who led the struggle of migrant farm workers for better working conditions.

Traces the life and accomplishments of Mexican American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who founded the United Farm Workers union to promote better wages and working conditions for migrants and other farm workers.

A brief biography of the migrant farm worker who led the nation-wide boycott of grapes as part of his movement to organize and help farm laborers in the United States.

Provides a biography of Mexican American labor organizer Cesar Chavez covering his birth, childhood, teen years, and adulthood. Includes a timeline.

Provides an introduction to the life and work of labor and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, and features articles that discuss his early struggles, the events that led him to organize a union for farm workers, the social and political impact of his work, his strategies and tactics, and his legacy.

Introduces the life and accomplishments of this great Mexican American and labor leader.

Presents a short biography of Cesar Chavez, and chronicles his childhood in Arizona and migration to California during the Great Depression, his encounters with discrimination that led him to organize the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, and his fight against grape growers.

Profiles the March 1966 National Grape Boycott led by Mexican-American activist, Cesar Chavez, in order to protest the conditions that farmworkers had to endure including inadequate housing and wages.

An account of the life of Mary "Mother" Jones, a leading labor union and child labor activist in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Presented in graphic format.