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Winter, 2007
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César Chávez, the Catholic Bishops, and the Farmworkers' Struggle for Social Justice. By Marco G. Prouty. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. xiii + 185 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.)
      After the death of César Chávez in 1993, his contributions to improving the lives of farmworkers were acknowledged in several ways. President Bill Clinton awarded Chávez a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom; the Post Office issued a first-class stamp with his picture in 2003; and California made his birthday an official state holiday. Schools, libraries, and streets have been named for him in California, Arizona, Texas, Minnesota, and other states. If public history has memorialized him, then it is time for historians to examine his successes and failures. Marco Prouty takes on this task with a study of the Catholic Church and Chávez's union during the period 1965–76. . . .
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