Books

Fiction

• Jiminez, Franciso. Breaking Through.
• Jiminez, Franciso. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child.
• Peck, Robert Newton. Arly.
• Peck, Robert Newton. Arly's Run.
• Soto, Gary. Jesse
• Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.

Non-fiction

• Atkin, S. Beth. Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories.
• Cedeno, Maria E. Cesar Chavez: Labor Leader.
• del Castillo, Griswold. Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit.
• De Ruiz, Dana Catherine. La Causa: The Migrant Farmworkers' Story.
• Encyclopedia of World Biography includes Chavez. This is located in the Reference Encyclopedia section of Jervis Library and may not be checked out.
• Ferriss, Susan. The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement.
• Heaps, Willard. Wandering Workers.
• Levy, Jacques E. Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa.
• Martinez, Ruben. Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail.
• Rodriguez, Consuela. Cesar Chavez.
• Rothenberg, Daniel. With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today.
• Stanley, Jerry. Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp.
• Streissguth, Thomas. Legendary Labor Leaders. Chapter 8 is about Cesar Chavez.

A selection of organizations to contact

For more information about these organizations, and for more organizations, see the Encyclopedia of Associations at REF 061 GAL.

• Association of Farmworkers Opportunity Programs (AFOP)
  • 1611 N. Kent Street, Suite 910
  • Arlington, VA 22209-2111
  • 1-800-543-AFOP
    • http://www.afop.org
• Farm Worker Health Services
  • 1234 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite C-1017
  • Washington, DC 20005
  • 1-202-347-7377
• Migrant Dropout Reconnection Program
  • c/o Robert Lynch
  • BOCES Geneseo Migrant Center
  • Holcomb Building, Room210
  • Geneseo, NY 14454
  • 1-716-245-5681

Internet Resources

• Cesar E. Chavez Biography with discussion questions provided by the San Diego County Office of Education.
• National Women's History Place has a page dedicated to Dolores Huarte, champion for migrant workers' education.
• Si Su Puede! Cesar E. Chavez and His Legacy was created as part of an exhibit at UCLA. It includes a bibliography and pictures among other information.
• United Farm Workers Official Page This is the union for which Chavez was a champion. 

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