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To serve the people : my life organizing with Cesar Chavez and the poor /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chatfield, LeRoy, 1934- (Author), Mariscal, George (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Chatfield, LeRoy, > 1934-
Chavez, Cesar, > 1927-1993 > Friends and associates.
United Farm Workers of America > Biography.
Labor leaders > United States > Biography.
Political activists > United States > Biography.
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers > History > 20th century.
Labor movement > United States > History > 20th century.
Social justice > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • From Colusa
  • Boarding school, 1948
  • LeRoy, merry Christmas!
  • Observe, judge, act
  • Are you Democrat or Republican?
  • My journal: Mexico City (excerpts)
  • Bakersfield to Boston to Delano, 1963
  • Brother Gilbert's appeal letter, 1965
  • The Delano grape strike
  • Farmworker volunteers
  • Stop the grapes
  • Pushing the buttons
  • Strike violence vs. nonviolence
  • The fast
  • Kern County courthouse cathedral
  • Bobby
  • On movement leaders
  • My journal : Delano (excerpts)
  • Letter from Delano (with growers' response)
  • La paz
  • Jerry Brown says, "I'm not God!"
  • Taking the blame
  • Legislation vs. movement
  • Eulogy for Cesar
  • My prophecy, 1993
  • Helen Chavez : a tribute
  • The organizer
  • What is the answer?
  • Guests, not clients
  • Clean and sober
  • Cherry-picking
  • A public fast
  • There is no OK place to be
  • A bird in the hand
  • Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
  • Management maxims
  • Afterword: Cesar Chavez, 1927-1993 : twenty-five years and counting.