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Dolores Huerta: A Legacy of Hope

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  • Birth of Dolores

    Birth of Dolores

    -Born in Dawson, New Mexico
    -Father was union activist
    -After divorce Huerta was raised by her mohter
  • “I quit because I couldn’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children”

    “I quit because I couldn’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children”

    -was a teacher
    -Became a leader in her local Community Service Organization
    -met Cesar Chavez
  • Huerta founds the AWA

    Huerta founds the AWA

    -set up voter registration drives
    -pressed local governments for barrio improvements
  • Huerta and Chavez- Birth of NFWA

    Huerta and Chavez- Birth of NFWA

    -met throught CSO
    -founded the National Farm Workers Association
    -later became the United Farm Workers
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    Lobbying

    -Lobbying skills notable
    -Aid For Dependent Families, AFDC
    -obtained disability insruance for farm workers in California
    -key in the enactment of the Agricultural Labor Relasionts Act of 1975
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    VP of UFW

  • United Farm Workers Organizing Committee is created

    United Farm Workers Organizing Committee is created

    -Integrity, Innovation, Empowerment ,Non-violence, Si Se Puede Attitude
    -nation's first successful and largest farm workers union
    -currently active in 10 states
  • The Grape Strike

    The Grape Strike

    -5,000 workers left the fields
    -nation wide protest and strike
    -300-mile march,from Delano to Sacramento. It placed the farm workers’ plight squarely before the conscience of the American people.
  • California Agricultural Labor Relations Act is signed

    California Agricultural Labor Relations Act is signed

    -"ensure peace in the agricultural fields by guaranteeing justice for all agricultural workers and stability in labor relations"
    -the right of agricultural employees to full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, to negotiate the terms and conditions of their employment, and to be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organizatio
  • Feminism

    Feminism

    -focus on women’s rights.
    -traveled country for two years
    -Feminist Majority’s Feminization of Power: 50/50
    -2000 Campaign encouraging Latina’s to run for office
    -significant increase in the number of women representatives at the local, state and federal levels
  • Women's Hall of Fame

    Women's Hall of Fame

    In 1993, Huerta was honored by being inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
  • Dolores receives the Medal of Freedom

    Dolores receives the Medal of Freedom

    PBS