Mighty Hard Road (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Kathryn Cramer, James P. Terzian
- First Published: 1970
- Time of Work: 1937–1970
- Setting: Arizona and California
- Principal Characters: César Chávez, Helen Fabela Chávez, Fred Ross, James Drake, Delores Huerta, Larry Itliong, Senator Robert F. Kennedy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, California, West, U.S., Farms, farmers, or farming, Migrant labor, Latinos, Labor, Labor unions, Biography, Unions or unionism
- Locales: California, Arizona
Form and Content
The title of Mighty Hard Road: The Story of Cesar Chavez, by James P. Terzian and Kathryn Cramer, is an apt one because it describes well the two goals of the book. The biography depicts the “mighty hard road” of César Chávez, who rose from poverty to become a highly respected leader and union organizer, and the book also focuses attention on the “mighty hard road” confronted by migrant farm workers in general in their struggle for decent working conditions and wages.
The book, which is fourteen chapters long, follows a chronological...
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