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Dennis Chavez : the First Hispanic Us Senator

Author: Coy, Cissie

Follett Number: 1442SHX
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Pinata Books, Arte Publico Press, 2017
Format: 69 pages, 74 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-852-7
ISBN-10: 1-55885-852-0
LCCN: 2017-027820
Dewey: 328.73
Classifications: Biography; Nonfiction

Subjects:
Biographies
Chavez, Dennis, 1888-1962
Hispanic American Politicians
Hispanic Americans Biography
Legislators
New Mexico Politics and Government
Politicians New Mexico
Spanish Language Materials Bilingual
United States Race Relations History 20th Century
United States. Congress. Senate
Upside-Down Books
Text in English and Spanish.;Translated from the English.;Titles from separate title pages; works issued back-to-back and inverted. A biography of politician Dennis Chavez. Presented in English and Spanish.

From the publisher:
Dennis Chavez was born in the small farming community of Los Chavez in 1888 in what was then the Territory of New Mexico. His childhood home had dirt floors and no indoor plumbing. As a boy, he tended his father's crops and sheep. He spoke only Spanish and never went to high school or college. This bilingual "flip" book for intermediate readers recounts the inspiring story of Dennis Chavez, who in spite of having to drop out of school in the seventh grade to get a job to help his family, went on to graduate from Georgetown Law School in Washington, DC, and represent New Mexico in the US Senate for twenty-seven years.Dennis Chavez saw and experienced injustice from an early age. When he refused to deliver groceries to railroad strike breakers, he lost his first job. This first-hand involvement with labor conflicts fanned his interest in both law and government, and throughout his long career he consistently supported workers, minorities and regular people. He fought against the "whites only" practices that were rampant in the South, introducing legislation to ban discrimination in hiring, saying "Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us." Holding strong to his beliefs of fairness and justice, he spoke out against McCarthyism on the Senate floor. Senate seniority gave Chavez powerful responsibility over the US budget for military defense and public works projects such as the remaking of the nation's highways.Spanning American history from 1888-1962--from the frontier where Indian raids were still common to the country's power-filled corridors in Washington, DC--this book written by his granddaughter will give young readers an eye-opening look at the difficulties faced by non-whites and the intolerance that was common as recently as the latter half of the twentieth century and is still an issue today.

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