César E. Chávez, 1927-1993

Berkeley Celebrates “Si Se Puede!”

English — Elementary School
English — Middle School
English — High School
Spanish

Elementary School
Middle School
High School

Grades K-3
Grades 4-6
Grades 7-9
Grades 10-12

Adult:

Fight In the Fields, Susan Ferriss & Ricardo Sandoval
“Farm Workers at Risk,” by César Chávez, in Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice, Edited by Richard Hofrichter
"The Environmentalism of Cesar Chavez," Santiago Casal

Children:

Harvesting Hope, Kathleen Krull (also in Spanish – Cosechando esperanza)
Downloadable Teachers Guide for Harvesting Hope
Elegy on the Death of César Chávez - Rodolfo Anaya

http://www.sfsu.edu/%7Ececipp/cesar_chavez/gallery.htm
http://www.colapublib.org/chavez/

Fight In The Fields, Ray Telles & Rick Tejada-Flores (w/study guide)
An award winning PBS documentary
Common Man, Uncommon Vision, The Cesar Chavez Story
(narrated by Martin Sheen) (w/study guide)
Harvest of Shame, 1960 - The final documentary in the career of broadcasting news legend Edward R. Murrow. Originally aired on CBS Reports in 1960, this controversial documentary shocked viewers with its stark images of desperate poverty and the callous greed of big growers. It forever changed the nature of TV news and set the tone for a generation of investigative journalists.