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Cesar Chavez : champion for civil rights / by Anne Roome and Joanne Mattern.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Rookie biographyPublisher: New York, NY : Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2016]Description: 32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780531225462
  • 0531225461
  • 9780531226353
  • 0531226352
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Meet Cesar Chavez -- Young migrant farmer -- Making a movement -- A nation united.
Dissertation note: 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Reader Chavez, C. R777 Available 33111008153666
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Reader Chavez, C. R777 Available 33111008384535
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Meet Cesar Chavez a Mexican-American farmworker and civil rights activist.Fact-filled Rookie Read-About Biographies introduce the youngest readers to influential women and men, both past and present. Colorful photos and age appropriate text encourage children to read on their own-as they learn about people like Serena Williams, Neil Armstrong, Rosa Parks, Anne Frank and many more. Cesar spent many years picking crops. He worked with his family and a lot of other farmworkers. 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.

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.

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