Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution Matthiessen, Peter Agriculture,Association Copy,Chicano / Mexican American,LATINX,Labor Movement / Unions

Matthiessen's perceptive study of Chavez and the United Farm Workers union, inscribed by Chavez to Althea Alexander, a late African American physician. Dr. Alexander is credited with mentoring hundreds of black and brown students at USC's Keck School of Medicine, where she was hired in 1968 as the first dean of Minority Affairs. One of the students Dr. Alexander took under her wing was Diana Ramos, who was in high school when they met. "Whenever I was wanting to give up or just needed a little pep talk," Ramos said after becoming California's surgeon general in 2022, "she was always there.? According to Dr. Alexander's (1935?2024) obituary in the Los Angeles Times, "She shared a passion for civil rights advocacy, joining protesters during the East L.A.protests in 1970, and had a United Farm Workers flag hanging in her office signed by Cesar Chavez." [10], 73, [1] pages. First edition (first printing stated, with a numberline ending in 2, which was how Random House designated first printings at the time). Spine ends bumped; purple top-edge stain scuffed, thus very good in a very good dust jacket that is also bumped at the spine. This copy is inscribed, "To Althea Alexander[,] your friend in the struggle?Cesar E. Chavez 4/23/70." A pleasing association between two civil rights leaders working in different fields. Copies of Sal Si Puedes (the title comes from the nickname for Chavez's old neighborhood in San Jose?Get out if you can) are uncommon signed by Chavez. NB: Copies with a tipped-in legal disclaimer have been reported, although I've never seen one.