Trampling out the vintage : Cesar Chavez and the two souls of the United Farm Workers 9781781680667, 1781680663, 9781844677184, 1844677184
"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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Table of contents :
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 family affair --
New wings --The grape strike --
The boycott. Moral Jujitsu --
"Boycott, baby, boycott" : the civil rights coalition regroups --
Battle theater --
The spring pilgrimage --
Democratic Delano --
Cutting back and rooting out --
The fast --
Boycott heroics --
Farmworkers win a new deal. Salinas before the storm --
"Reds lettuce alone" : farmworkers stun Salinas --
Up on the mountain, out in the fields, back in the cities --
"Fighting for our lives" --
Forcing the great concession --
The wet line --
Victory in hand, confusion at heart. Living with the law --
"The game" --
"That wall is black" : the La Paz makeover --
Imperial strike --
"Esta huelga está Ganada" --
The good, the bad, the unlikely --
Civil war --
Exeunt omnes --
Epilogue.
