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Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
This article features the life of Yuri Kochiyama as a social, political and civil rights activist. Kochiyama is one of many whose social, political and civil rights activism was inspired by Malcolm X. She is one of the few non-Blacks often associated with him and has forged multi-ethnic coalitions, especially between Asian Americans and Blacks. An…
Descriptors: African Americans, Racial Discrimination, Asian Americans, Activism
Cedeno, Maria E. – 1993
Written for young people, this book traces the accomplishments of Cesar Chavez, a labor leader who fought to improve the lives of Mexican-American farmworkers in California. Chavez was born in 1927 in the Gila Valley, Arizona. When Chavez was 10, his family lost their farm and was forced to move to California and become migrant workers. Chavez and…
Descriptors: Activism, Adolescent Literature, Agricultural Laborers, Biographies