Cesar Chavez : champion for civil rights / by Anne Roome and Joanne Mattern.
Material type: TextSeries: 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
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780531225462
- 0531225461
- 9780531226353
- 0531226352
- Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993 -- Juvenile literature
- Labor leaders -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
- United Farm Workers -- History -- Juvenile literature
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Reader | Chavez, C. R777 | Available | 33111008153666 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Reader | Chavez, C. R777 | Available | 33111008384535 |
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.