("Giving up a paycheck, he argued, was a liberating experience.") Even worse, he was outright contemptuous of the "materialistic" aspirations of the workers he represented, who did not want to be poor like Jesus. But it also fueled Chavez's obstinacy on points that led to the disintegration of his organization: the impractical insistence that staff should be volunteers rather than be paid. It enabled his cult of personality, since few could beat him in a sacrifice contest. But basing a movement on sacrifice had its limits. As it often does in American social movements - from abolition to civil rights and beyond - such rhetoric resonated powerfully with people. Chavez was constantly praying and fasting, and talking about the importance of sacrificing for the cause.
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As she boards the train that will take her back to the southern town of Greendale, Mississippi, where she has not set foot in more than fifty years, Anita is filled with anticipation, apprehension, and heartrending remembrances of her childhood.Īs she settles back into her train seat for the long ride, her mind soon drifts to the days of her youth spent in Greendale. Anita Stalls, a retired business executive in her seventies, is on the trip of a lifetime. |