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2) Dolores
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Premilla Nadasen recounts in this powerful book a little-known history of organizing among African American household workers. She uses the stories of a handful of women to illuminate the broader politics of labor, organizing, race, and gender in late 20th-century America. At the crossroads of the emerging civil rights movement, a deindustrializing economy, a burgeoning women's movement, and increasing immigration, household worker activists, who...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares information on labor leader Mother Jones and her 1903 Children's Crusade protesting the dangerous conditions endured by child factory workers.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft-coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph 'Jock' Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Seven months earlier, Yablonski had announced his campaign to oust the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle. Boyle had long embezzled UMWA funds, silenced intra-union dissent,...
14) Clara Lemlich
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
55 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Clara Lemlich, part of the She Persisted chapter book series"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
44 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of Fannie Sellins, a union activist who traveled the nation promoting fair wages and decent working and living conditions for workers in the garment and mining industries.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiv, 186 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Since the 1950s, Latina activist Dolores Huerta has been a fervent leader and organizer in the struggle for farmworkers' rights within the Latina/o community. A cofounder of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s alongside César Chávez, Huerta was a union vice president for nearly four decades before starting her own foundation in the early 2000s. She continues to act as a dynamic speaker, passionate lobbyist, and dedicated figure for social...
19) Cesar Chavez
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An overview of the life and work of American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who dedicated his life for the betterment of migrant farm workers.
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