Table of Contents
Prologue: The Car Pool 1
The Founding
1 The Territory 21
2 The Work Itself 30
3 Childhood as Destiny 43
4 The Lay Catholic Activist 57
5 The Alchemist 67
6 The Organizer in Oxnard 83
7 Climbing the Fence 95
8 A Family Affair 108
9 New Wings 134
10 The Grape Strike 146
The Boycott
11 Moral Jujitsu 167
12 "Boycott Baby, Boycott": The Civil Rights Coalition Regroups 183
13 Battle Theater 197
14 The Spring Pilgrimage 212
15 Democratic Delano 237
16 Cutting Back and Rooting Out 260
17 The Fast 281
18 Boycott Heroics 308
Farmworkers Win A New Deal
19 Salinas Before the Storm 341
20 "Reds Lettuce Alone": Farmworkers Stun Salinas 359
21 Up on the Mountain, out in the Fields, Back in the Cities 392
22 "Fighting for Our Lives" 422
23 Forcing the Great Concession 453
24 The Wet Line 488
Victory in Hand, Confusion at Heart
25 Living with the Law 509
26 "The Game" 541
27 "That wall is Black": The La Paz Makeover 566
28 Imperial Strike 594
29 "Esta Huelga Está Ganada" 620
30 The Good, the Bad, the Unlikely 655
31 Civil War 688
32 Exeunt Omnes 722
Epilogue 739
Acknowledgments 741
Notes 743
Sources 809
Index 817
Maps 837