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Peer reviewedRoberts, Charles – American Indian Quarterly, 1990
Recounts the life of a Choctaw woman, born in a Mississippi Choctaw community in 1890, removed to Oklahoma Indian Territory in 1903, and moved to San Francisco in 1944. Describes her marriages, her children's school experiences, the depression, poverty, and stresses of adjustment to urban life. (SV)
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indians, Biographies, Family History
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
