Sal Si Puedes is a book about the influence of Cesar Chavez and his movement for rights for farm and field workers in the 1960s. Chavez, along with others like Dolores Huerta, started the United Farm Workers Association to organize the farm workers in California. In this time, growers were paying farm workers starvation wages and not providing adequate working conditions for these people performing back breaking labor to pick produce. Peter Matthiessen talks about the story of how Cesar Chavez became a union organizer. In 1952, Chavez was working with his brother picking in apricot groves. Chavez came home one day and found that a white man named Fred Ross wanted to speak with him about the issues that were plaguing the Mexican community,
