Cesar Chavez: Champion for Civil Rights
- ISBN-10
- 0531225461
- ISBN-13
- 9780531225462
- Series
- Cesar Chavez
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-02-01
- Publisher
- C. Press/F. Watts Trade
- Author
- Anne Ross Roome
Description
Meet Cesar Chavez. He was a Mexican-American farmworker and civil rights activist. 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.
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