Dolores Huerta Among poor people, there's not

any question about women being

strong -- even stronger than
men -- they work in the fields
right along with the men. When
your survival is at stake, you don't
have these questions about
yourself like middle-class women
do.
-Dolores Huerta
Childhood
Dolores Grew up in Stockton, CA. Which
is nearly all farm lands.
Dolores encountered much racism
growing up.
A teacher accused her of stealing
another students work because of her
ethnicity and giving her an unfair grade.
On her way to a party celebrating the
end of World War II she found her
brother badly beaten because of the
zoot-suit he was wearing, which was a
popular fashion for Latinos at the time.
 Personal Life
After graduating from Delta Community College, Dolores went to
teaching at an elementary school.
She saw that her students, many of them children of farm workers, were
living in poverty without enough food to eat or other basic necessities.
To try and help those children, Dolores became one of the founders of the
Stockton chapter of the Community Services Organization (CSO).
CSO worked to improve social and economic conditions for farm workers and
to fight discrimination.
Education

Dolores received an associate

teaching degree from the
Education University of the Pacifics
Delta Community College.
Inspirations
She was inspired to fight for
workers rights when, as a young
school teacher, she noticed that
many of her students were
showing up to school malnourished
and ill.
Along with Cesar Chavez, she
founded the first successful farm
workers union in the country, the
United Farm Workers, in 1962.
 Contribution
One of her many contributions
was her work as the
coordinator for East Coast
efforts in the table grape
boycott, 1968-69, which helped to
win recognition for the farm
workers' union. It was during
this time that she also became
connected with the growing
feminist movement.
Controversial
In the aftermath of immigration
inaction and the campaign to force
President Barack Obamas hand on
reducing deportations, nothing, it
seems, is sacred - not even Dolores
Huerta, the heroine of the
farmworker civil rights movement, who
marched alongside Cesar Chavez and
holds a lofty position in Mexican
American civil rights history.
This Makes One Consider...

Todays society and rights. (What issues are occurring that need
change.)

Can you make a difference?

How can you make a difference?