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The fight in the fields : Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers' struggle
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The fight in the fields : Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers' struggle

Author: Ray TellesRick Tejada-FloresHenry DarrowEthel KennedyDolores HuertaAll authors
Publisher: New York, NY : Distributed by Cinema Guild, 2006.
Edition/Format:   DVD video : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The story of Cesar Chavez, founder of the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Examines the grape and lettuce boycotts and the non-violent movements of the 1960s and 1970s; these confronted conservative politicians and the Teamsters Union and inspired Chicano activism. Uses archival footage, newsreels, and contemporary interviews with activists, politicians, and Chavez family  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Cesar Chavez; Cesar Chavez; Cesar Chavez
Material Type: Videorecording
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Ray Telles; Rick Tejada-Flores; Henry Darrow; Ethel Kennedy; Dolores Huerta; Vicente Franco; Herb Ferrette; Pete Sears; Paradigm Productions.; Independent Television Service.; Cinema Guild.
OCLC Number: 74150247
Notes: Originally produced in 1996.
This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
Credits: Camera, Vicente Franco ; editor, Herb Ferrette ; music, Pete Sears.
Performer(s): Narrator: Henry Darrow.
Interviews: Ethel Kennedy, Jerry Brown, Dolores Huerta, Chavez' brother, sister, son and daughter, and others.
Description: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Details: DVD-R.
Other Titles: Cesar Chaves and the farmworkers' struggle
Responsibility: a production of Paradigm Productions Inc. in association with Independent Television Service ; directed by Ray Telles, Rick Tejada-Flores ; produced by Rick Tejada-Flores, Ray Telles.

Abstract:

The story of Cesar Chavez, founder of the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Examines the grape and lettuce boycotts and the non-violent movements of the 1960s and 1970s; these confronted conservative politicians and the Teamsters Union and inspired Chicano activism. Uses archival footage, newsreels, and contemporary interviews with activists, politicians, and Chavez family members.

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