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Strike!: The Farm Workers’ Fight for Their Rights

By Larry Dane Brimner
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Boyds Mills Press Imprint Calkins Creek ISBN

9781590789971

Awards and Honors Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature, Best Multicultural Books of 2014; Winner, IRA Notable Books for a Global Society, 2015; 2015 NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Book; VOYA’s Perfect Tens 2014; 2015 Ameréicas Award Honorable Mention

Strike!: The Farm Workers’ Fight for Their Rights

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Discrimination: Reference/Discussion,Violence: Death,Violence: Mild Violence

On September 8, 1965, vineyard crews in Delano, California, "exchanged their tools for picket signs." The grape strike was soon led by farm workers' advocate César Chávez. Author's note. Time line. Resources for more information. Source notes. Index. Black-and-white maps, period documents and artwork, and photographs.
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