Cesar Chavez and La Causa

Library of American Biography

by Dan La Botz

In this powerful and moving biography of one of the greatest labor leaders in the history of America , students come face-to-face with an inspirational man whose trials and tribulations echoed the struggles of modern America and whose courage, simplicity and faith changed agriculture in America forever. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each of the titles in the Library of American Biography series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times. This text focuses on Chavez, but also provides the much needed background of the farm workers movement, the formation of the UFW and the history of migrant workers in the U.S. This text incorporates the latest scholarship on Chavez’s life and times, but makes the story accessible to students in both survey and upper division courses in American history.

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 16, 2005

About the author

Daniel H. La Botz is a prominent American labor union activist, academic, journalist, and author. He was a co-founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and has written extensively on worker rights in the United States and Mexico. He is a member of the socialist organization Solidarity.

Reviews

[Carolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was interesting to learn about this "Mexican American Martin Luther King Jr." He was born in 1927 and passed away in 1993. I admired how much he struggled for the rights of the poor Mexican American farmers and others who were often exploited by their employers and politicians. He was not perfect and had some quirky traits about him, but overall he definitely deserved a lot of praise for his accomplishments.