Fields of Courage: Remembering Cesar Chavez and the People Whose Labor Feeds Us
Author: Drake, Susan Samuels
Date Published: 1999
In 1962, Cesar Chavez initiated a movement to empower farm workers with a labor union. Hundreds of middle-class supporters joined him as the workers struggled for social justice. On his staff was a mother of two, Susan Samuels Drake. Anecdotal, heart-felt and true, these poetic memoirs of Susan Samuels Drake reflect on her 31-year friendship with Cesar Chavez and on the formation of the United Farmworkers AFL-CIO. Fields of courage, the first memoir published by a woman who worked closely with Cesar Chavez, offers a unique perspective of the Mexican-American visionary whose contagious determination bettered the quality of life for millions of people.
Date Published: 1999
In 1962, Cesar Chavez initiated a movement to empower farm workers with a labor union. Hundreds of middle-class supporters joined him as the workers struggled for social justice. On his staff was a mother of two, Susan Samuels Drake. Anecdotal, heart-felt and true, these poetic memoirs of Susan Samuels Drake reflect on her 31-year friendship with Cesar Chavez and on the formation of the United Farmworkers AFL-CIO. Fields of courage, the first memoir published by a woman who worked closely with Cesar Chavez, offers a unique perspective of the Mexican-American visionary whose contagious determination bettered the quality of life for millions of people.
