Jacques E. Levy Research Collection on Cesar Chavez, 1959-1997
The Jacques E. Levy Research Collection on Cesar Chavez consists of audiotapes, transcripts, notebooks, correspondence, documents, printed material, and writings accumulated by Levy while conducting research for his book, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa (New York: Norton, [1975]). The collection, spanning the dates 1959-1997, documents Cesar Chavez’s life as well as the early history of the United Farm Workers union and the labor movement in California.