Sunday, March 30, 2014

Cesar Chavez



Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who along with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Assoc. Chavez’s birthday is March 31st and it’s celebrated in several southwestern states intended to honor his life and work. With a new movie breaking about Chavez, it is a good time to be reminded of a couple older University of New Mexico Press titles on the topics of Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the migrant farm worker:

CESAR CHAVEZ AND THE COMMON SENSE OF NONVIOLENCE, by Jose-Antonio Orosco, $24.95 cloth