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Gilbert Padilla, co-founder

Gilbert Padilla is a former member of the Community Service Organization that moved to the Central Valley with Cesar Chavez in 1962 to begin the National Farm Workers Association.  He ...

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“Remembering Cesar Chavez” at OAH 2013

On April 13, 2013, Miriam Powell and I hosted UFW veterans Gilbert Padilla, Chava Bustamante, Elaine Elinson, and Jerry Brown for a conversation  about the the legacy of Cesar Chavez ...

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From the Jaws of Victory

From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline ...

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Biography

Matthew Garcia is the director of the School of Historical, Philosophical, and ...
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Critical Responses and Resources

This section hosts some of the public responses to my most recent ...
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Writing

From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez ...
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Teaching

Here are a few syllabi from previous course I have taught: History ...
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Digital Projects

Educating Change: Latina Activism and the Struggle for Educational Equity remembers the ...
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Lectures and Interviews

KCRW’s Good Food, “Matt Bitman; Domestic Truffles; the Legacy of Caesar Chavez” ...