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Cesar Chavez Educational Posters, Books, Video, Links for Learning
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social studies > Cesar Chavez Posters < famous men < Latino Heritage
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Comprehensive selection of educational posters celebrating the life and times of Mexican American labor activist Cesar Chavez, as teaching resources for the social studies and literature classrooms, home schoolers.
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• CESAR CHAVEZ EDUCATIONAL POSTERS
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In the mid 1960s the NFWA organized the historic farmworkers march from Delano to the California state capitol in Sacramento for seeking higher wages and better working conditions. The UFW encouraged all Americans to support the strike by boycotting table grapes. The strike lasted five years and when the U.S. Senate Subcommittee looked into the situation, Robert F. Kennedy gave Chávez his total support.
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TIME - The Grapes Wrath, 1969, Mexican-Americans on the March.
“The Little Strike that Grew to La Causa ... the table grape, Vitis vinifera, has become the symbol of the four-year-old strike of California's predominantly Mexican-American farm workers. For more than a year now, table grapes have been the object of a national boycott that has won the sympathy and support of many Americans — and the ire of many others. The strike is widely known as la causa, which has come to represent not only a protest against working conditions among California grape pickers but the wider aspirations of the nation's Mexican-American minority as well. ...”
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Cesar Chavez,
Think Different Poster
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“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.”
Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers
b. 3-31-1927, near Yuma, AZ
d. 4-23-1993
• BOOKS, VIDEO
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement - Cesar Chavez's life and work transformd American society, and his name is synoymous with the struggle of American migrant farmworkers for dignity and justice. He was also a complex man who often frustrated his co-workers. In the years before his death in 1993, the IFW was often divided by conflicts.
The Words of Cesar Chavez -
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez - essential biography for elementary and middle school libraries about one of America's greatest civil rights leaders.
Cesar Chavez (Photo-Illustrated Biographies)-
LINKS FOR LEARNING : CESAR CHAVEZ
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