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"Courageous." -Ilan Stavans, author of Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language Robert Kennedy and Ces

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One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity
1317254961, 9781317254966

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How Robert Kennedy emerged as a champion of the poor during the 1960s. Robert Kennedy's abbreviated run for the pre

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Learn more about Cesar Chavez, the famous Latino American civil rights activist. When he was young, Cesar and his Mexica

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“You stand today as a living example of the Gandhian tradition with its great force for social progress and its healing

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From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive

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A comprehensive biography documents the political partnership between John and his younger brother, tracing Robert'

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'The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez' maps and challenges many of the mythologies that surround the lat

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In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthies

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Cesar Chavez is the most prominent Latino in United States history books, and much has been written about Chavez and the

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"A dramatic new history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers. The slogan "Yes we c

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