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San Diego Central Library presents an author talk and book signing with LeRoy Chatfield and co-author Jorge Mariscal with Chatfield ‘s autobiography: To Serve the People: My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the Poor.
To Serve the People chronicles Chatfield’s career organizing for marginalized populations including farmworkers and exploited working class families alongside famed activists including Cesar Chavez, Marshall Ganz, Bonnie Chatfield, and Philip Vera Cruz. Chatfield outlines a life dedicated to equality of opportunity for all and describes the multiple collective struggles he was involved in to better the condition of those denied the promises of the American dream.
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LeRoy Chatfield is a former organizer who worked with Cesar Chavez to get union recognition for California farmworkers, created a Saturday school educational enrichment program for farmworker children in Bakersfield, managed the Northern California general election campaign for Jerry Brown, and built the largest volunteer charitable organization in Sacramento. Jorge Mariscal is a professor emeritus of Spanish and Chicano/a literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965–1975.
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Parking is underground and free with 2-hour validation. The Central Library is one block from the Park & Market stop on the Trolley Blue and Orange lines. Bus routes #12 stops right in front of the library.