Book Series: Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez

By Kathleen Tracy

A biography of the life and accomplishments of the founder of the United Farm Workers of America, Cesar Chavez, discussing his nonviolent fight for migrant farm workers.

Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit

By Richard Griswold del Castillo, Richard A. Garcia

Explores the growth and development of the farm labor organizer

Cesar Chavez: A Biography

By Roger Bruns

Traces the life and accomplishments of the founder of the United Farm Workers of America, Cesar Chavez, discussing his nonviolent fight for migrant farm workers.

Cesar Chavez: Champion for Civil Rights

By Anne Ross Roome

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.

Cesar Chavez: Champion for Civil Rights

By Joanne Mattern, Anne Ross Roome

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.

Cesar Chavez

By Jeff C. Young

Presents the life story of the Mexican-American labor leader who helped achieve justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.

Cesar Chavez: Champion of Workers

By Tyler Schumacher

"A brief introduction to the life of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American activist who founded the first successful farm workers' union in the United States"--Provided by publisher.

Cesar Chavez: Friend to Farm Workers

By Jeri Cipriano

As a child, Cesar Chavez worked on farms with his family. He felt the workers were not treated well. Cesar used his voice to become a leader in making sure farm workers were paid better and treated fairly.

César Chávez: A Triumph of Spirit

By Richard Griswold del Castillo, Richard A. Garcia

This biography of Chavez by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia is the first to approach Chavez's life - his courageous acts, his turning points, his many perceived personas - in the context of Chicano and American history.

Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa

By Jacques E. Levy

Jacques E. Levy (1927–2004), a prize-winning journalist, spent six years with Cesar Chavez researching and writing this book.

Cesar Chavez: Fighting for Farmworkers

By Eric Mark Braun

A biography telling the life of labor leader Cesar Chavez and the boycotts that he led to gain fair working conditions for farmworkers. Written in graphic-novel format.

Cesar Chavez: Crusader for Labor Rights

By Kekla Magoon

Traces the life of the civil rights leader, who fought for the rights of migrant workers and helped form the United Farm Workers union.

Cesar Chavez: Fighting for Farmworkers

By Eric Braun

In graphic novel format, highlights the life and accomplishments of labor leader Cesar Chavez, who started a union that would become the United Farm Workers (UFW).

Cesar Chavez

By Ginger Wadsworth

An illustrated biography of Cesar Chavez, who worked to improve conditions for farm workers by helping to establish a union for them and by leading strikes to raise their pay and better their working conditions.

Cesar Chavez: A Hero for Everyone

By Gary Soto

Cesar Chavez, a migrant worker himself, was helping Mexican Americans work together for better wages, for better working conditions, for better lives. No one thought they could win against the rich and powerful growers.

Cesar Chavez

By Terry Barber

Cesar Chavez is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustrations reflect the text, making the words easy to decode.

Cesar Chavez: Labor Rights Activist

By Joanne Mattern

Growing up in a poor, migrant family, Cesar Chavez knew how hard life could be.

Cesar Chavez

By Lucile Davis

Presents the biography of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American labor leader who achieved justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.

Cesar Chavez

By Ilan Stavans

Labor leader, social justice advocate, Chicano leader, and humanitarian are only some of the multifaceted renderings of César Chávez.