TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roome,Anne Ross
AU  - Mattern,Joanne
TI  - Cesar Chavez: champion for civil rights 
T2  - Rookie biographies
SN  - 9780531225462
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
KW  - Chavez, Cesar,
KW  - United Farm Workers
KW  - History
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Labor leaders
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers
KW  - Migrant agricultural laborers
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - Readers (Publications)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes index; Includes a poem by Jodie Shepherd; Meet Cesar Chavez. He was a Mexican-American farmworker and civil rights activist. As a young boy, he had to work hard alongside his parents and siblings picking crops for other farmers. His family was very poor. Cesar never forgot how hard the work was--or how unfairly pickers were treated. As an adult, he fought to improve the lives of all farmworkers in America; Meet Cesar Chavez -- Young migrant farmer -- Making a movement -- A nation united
ER  -