Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights by Larry Dane Brimner, Larry Dane Brimner

Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights
Larry Dane Brimner, Larry Dane Brimner
Page: 172
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9781635928334
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights

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Overview

*Discover the important history of California’s migrant workers and their strike for fair wages during the Delano grape strike in the 1960’s

*Learn about Latino civil rights activist César Chávez and Filipino-American labor organizer Larry Itliong

*From Sibert award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner
  
Here is the gripping story of the Grape Strike that stirred a nation, as well as the rise of Latino civil rights activist César Chávez and the United Farm Workers of America.
  
 In the 1960’s, while the United States was at war and racial tensions were boiling over, Filipino-American workers were demanding fair wages and decent living conditions in California’s vineyards.  When the workers walked off the fields in September 1965, the great Delano grape strike began.  Did the signing of labor contracts with growers in 1970 mean an end to the problems of the American field laborers, or was it a short-lived truce? This nonfiction book for young readers follows the five-year long strike and also provides details about César Chávez and the United Farm Workers.  Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner’s riveting text, complemented by black-and-white archival photographs and the words of workers, organizers, and growers, tells the powerful history.

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