Winner of the 2012 Hillman Prize in Book Journalism. In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slo
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English Pages illustrations, maps Year 2012
Table of contents :
Title Page
Praise for Trampling Out the Vintage
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Prologue: The Car Pool
The Founding
1. The Territory
2. The Work Itself
3. Childhood as Destiny
4. The Lay Catholic Activist
5. The Alchemist
6. The Organizer in Oxnard
7. Climbing the Fence
8. A Family Affair
9. New Wings
10. The Grape Strike
The Boycott
11. Moral Jujitsu
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Boycott Baby, Boycottâ#x80
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: The Civil Rights Coalition Regroups
13. Battle Theater
14. The Spring Pilgrimage
15. Democratic Delano
16. Cutting Back and Rooting Out
17. The Fast
18. Boycott Heroics. Farmworkers Win A New Deal19. Salinas Before the Storm
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Reds Lettuce Aloneâ#x80
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: Farmworkers Stun Salinas
21. Up on the Mountain, Out in the Fields, Back in the Cities
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Fighting for Our Livesâ#x80
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23. Forcing the Great Concession
24. The Wet Line
Victory in Hand, Confusion at Heart
25. Living with the Law
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The Gameâ#x80
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That Wall Is Blackâ#x80
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: The La Paz Makeover
28. Imperial Strike
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Esta Huelga Está Ganadaâ#x80
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30. The Good, the Bad, the Unlikely
31. Civil War
32. Exeunt Omnes
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Sources
Index
Maps
Photo.