Indian Givers
Forty Acres
Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers
Mark Day
INTRODUCTION BY
CESAR CHAVEZ
PRAEGER PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK –
WASHINGTON –
LONDON
Acknowledgements: I am grateful to the staff and parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Church, Delano, to Fathers Al Peck, Ed Fronake, Ignatius DeGroot, Dave Duran, and
Tom Messner, and to Ray Reyes and Lala Granillo for their many kindnesses. I am also indebted to the staff of El Maleriado—Doug Adair, Marcia Sanchez, Ben Madocks, and
Richard Ibarra. My special thanks to Andy Zermeno, a sensitive man and a talented artist.
I also owe thanks to: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker for permission to adapt for us in ts ok y itrc ,AS a Dne o a le f en?; o H y ei r f he h bo m fsa ie“ t k i r r P to B as B b ot do o T i r tl e n a ”
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c al n e G ae o t D s t te e n Hs raSc t K nBu ; re J qe Lv;i r s fh e r ;h D l o ioi loiy e l wira us eyfe p e e” a tc e; m tc v diligent journalists: Ron Taylor, of the Fresno Bee, Bill Acres, formerly of the Delano Record,
Helen Manning and Eric Brazil of the Salinas Californian, and Sam Kushner, of the Poe el p’ s World; Bob Thurber, Gene Daniels, Stanley Randal, George Ballis, Chris Sanchez, Bob
Fitch, and Gerald Sherry, editor of the Central California Register, for their memorable photographs; the Fresno Bee; the Delano Record; and Juan A. Cuauhtemoc for his poem “ s
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, s, worker, and maintenance man of Forty Acres, who kept us all in stitches during those gloomier days! I am pleased to name all these people who helped my book. Some
Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers
Mark Day
INTRODUCTION BY
CESAR CHAVEZ
PRAEGER PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK –
WASHINGTON –
LONDON
Acknowledgements: I am grateful to the staff and parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Church, Delano, to Fathers Al Peck, Ed Fronake, Ignatius DeGroot, Dave Duran, and
Tom Messner, and to Ray Reyes and Lala Granillo for their many kindnesses. I am also indebted to the staff of El Maleriado—Doug Adair, Marcia Sanchez, Ben Madocks, and
Richard Ibarra. My special thanks to Andy Zermeno, a sensitive man and a talented artist.
I also owe thanks to: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker for permission to adapt for us in ts ok y itrc ,AS a Dne o a le f en?; o H y ei r f he h bo m fsa ie“ t k i r r P to B as B b ot do o T i r tl e n a ”
,t
National Catholic Reporter, frpr ii t uem t i f m m a ie“ h G ae o e so o s a rl r m sn ea o y rc T e r tl p
B yo : hr IIN w ”( prh A r 2,90The National Catholic Reporter); Clay oct W e st o ? c ygt pi 427, t e oi l
Barbeau, editor of Way Magazine, frpr ii t aat” h BakE g ad the o e so o dp : e l m sn
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c al n e G ae o t D s t te e n Hs raSc t K nBu ; re J qe Lv;i r s fh e r ;h D l o ioi loiy e l wira us eyfe p e e” a tc e; m tc v diligent journalists: Ron Taylor, of the Fresno Bee, Bill Acres, formerly of the Delano Record,
Helen Manning and Eric Brazil of the Salinas Californian, and Sam Kushner, of the Poe el p’ s World; Bob Thurber, Gene Daniels, Stanley Randal, George Ballis, Chris Sanchez, Bob
Fitch, and Gerald Sherry, editor of the Central California Register, for their memorable photographs; the Fresno Bee; the Delano Record; and Juan A. Cuauhtemoc for his poem “ s
Ee
C u Ju”rom Poesias de la Causa. Finally, my thanks to Mike Kratko, cowpuncher, farm hy es f
, s, worker, and maintenance man of Forty Acres, who kept us all in stitches during those gloomier days! I am pleased to name all these people who helped my book. Some