In the 1960s and ’70s, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers mobilized Latinos and low-income workers into a pioneering, grassroots activism. As our guest Randy Shaw writes, they set the stage for later social movements from environmentalism to the Obama campaign. Shaw is the author of “Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century.”
United Farm Workers and Progressive Politics
In the 1960s and '70s, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers mobilized Latinos and low-income workers into a pioneering, grassroots activism. As our guest Randy Shaw writes, they set the stage for later social movements from environmentalism to the Obama campaign. Shaw is the author of "Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century."
Guests:
Randy Shaw, author of "Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century" and director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco