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César Chávez: Civil Rights Activist

✍ Scribed by Bárbara C. Cruz

Book ID
110707342
Publisher
Enslow Publishing, LLC
Year
2015
Tongue
en-US
Weight
3 MB
Series
Influential Latinos
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780766071797

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

American farmworker, labor leader, and civil rights activist César Chávez cofounded the United Farm Workers labor union and fought to increase immigrants' rights in the United States. Through direct quotations from Chávez as well as a captivating narrative of his life, readers will learn what made Chávez an influential Latino.

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