Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS ~ TO SERVE THE PEOPLE ~ BY LEROY CHATFIELD

Introduction – Jorge Mariscal, Professor Emeritus UCSD

40 Photographs & Illustrations

Part One   –  With the Christian Brothers – 6 Chapters

1 From Colusa

2 Boarding School, 1948

3 LeRoy, Merry Christmas!

4 Observe, Judge, Act

5 Are You Democrat or Republican?

6 My Journal: Mexico City (Excerpts)

 Part Two –  With the Farmworkers  –  21 Chapters

7 Bakersfield to Boston to Delano, 1963

8 Brother Gilbert’s Appeal Letter, 1965

9 The Delano Grape Strike

10 Farmworker Volunteers

11 Stop the Grapes

12 Pushing the Buttons

13 Strike Violence vs. Nonviolence

14 The Fast

15 Kern County Courthouse Cathedral

16 Bobby

17 On Movement Leaders

18 My Journal: Delano (Excerpts)

19 Letter from Delano (with Growers’ Response)

20 La Paz

21 Jerry Brown Says, “I’m not God!”

22 Taking the Blame

23 Legislation vs. Movement

24 Eulogy for Cesar

25 My Prophecy, 1993

26 Helen Chavez—A Tribute

27 The Organizer

Part Three  –  With the Homeless  – 10 Chapters

28 What Is the Answer?

29 Guests, Not Clients

30 Clean and Sober

31 Cherry-Picking

32 A Public Fast

33 There Is No OK Place To Be

34 A Bird in the Hand

35 Farmworker Movement Documentation Project

36 Management Maxims

37 Afterword / Cesar Chavez, 1927–1993: Twenty-Five Years and Counting