[Rarebooks] Cesar Chavez

[Serendipity Books]

Chavez, Cesar = Director, National Farm Workers Association

White card, 6.4 x 9.2 cn, rounded corners, printed on both sides. 
Membership card for University Members, they to sign and identify 
their institution. Illustrated with the Farm Workers insignia (art 
deco black eagle, wings spread in a red circle).  Delano, CA: printed 
in San Francisco by Union printers, with bug, 1966. "This academic 
membership in the National Farm Workers Association testifies to your 
intellectual and financial commitment in the development of a 
grassroots organization in California for the purpose of achieving 
the rights and dignity due California farm workers. We, of the NFWA, 
in turn, pledge our lives to achieve this end. Signed in full in blue 
ink by Cesar E(estrada) Chavez. On verso, Chavez's further statement: 
"VIVA LA CAUSA / The organizer has to work more than anyone else in 
that group. Almost no one in a group is totally committed. And in the 
initial part of the movement there's the fear that when the organizer 
leaves, the movement will collapse. So you have to be able to say, 
'I'm not going to be here in a year, or six months, but an awful long 
time - until when they get rid of me they'll have leaders to do it 
themselves.'" Chavez: March 21, 1937 - April 23, 1993.   The Delano 
Strike, early 1966. An American hero.  $150.00



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