We Are Not Beasts of Burden: Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, California, 1965-1970

by Stuart A. Kallen

"The only way we could win was to keep fighting for a long time...the only way we could win was by staying with it."--Cesar Chavez As the sun rose on September 8, 1965, in Delano, California, thousands of acres of ripe grapes hung heavy on the vine. But instead of harvesting the crop, Filipino farmworkers on nine large ranches laid down their tools and walked out of the vineyards in protest of their low wages and dangerous working conditions. The...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761346082
• ISBN13: 9780761346081
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 14 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 9 to Postsecondary