Prologue : the car pool -- The founding. The territory -- The work itself -- Childhood as destiny -- The lay Catholic activist -- The alchemist -- The organizer in Oxnard -- Climbing the fence -- A ...

When my family migrated from New México to California in the late 1960s, César E. Chávez was in the midst of his crusade to gain labor rights for the farm workers who made fortunes for grape growers ...

Share By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read Matt Garcia is the author of From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement . Evan Kleiman host 'Good ...

While working together at the CSO, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta discovered a common interest in organizing farm workers. Chavez’s family had been forced into migrant work in the 1930s after losing ...