Two repeats on this Cesar Chavez day:

00:08 Bruce Neuburger, longtime radical activist who spent most of the 1970s working in California’s vegetable fields during the heyday of the United Farm Workers. His book is called Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California [interview originally aired in 2014]

00:33 Kathryn S. Olmsted, history professor at UC Davis, discussing her book Right out of California: the 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism. [interview originally aired in 2015]

Because of the holiday, our regular lineup of Ukraine and COVID coverage will air Tuesday. Send questions for Dr. Swartzberg to [email protected] 

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