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Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers ...
Gilbert Padilla (born December 1927) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NWFA), which later became the United Farm Workers of America (UFW). [1]
Helen Fabela Chávez (January 21, 1928 – June 6, 2016) was an American labor activist for the United Farm Workers of America (UFWA). Aside from her affiliation with the UFW, she was a Chicana with a traditional upbringing and limited education.
In the late ‘50s he met Dolores Huerta, who shared an interest in organizing farm workers. Huerta was born in Dawson, New Mexico, and left for Stockton, California, with her mother and siblings ...
Dolores Huerta is many things: a union organizer, a civil rights activist and even the subject of a California state holiday. But before she became the Sí , se puede leader , she was a Girl Scout.
Huerta co-founded what’s now known as the United Farmworkers Association with Cesar Chavez and coined the phrase, ¡Si se puede! Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta throws her endorsement into a ...
Richard Chavez was a co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association with his brother Cesar Chavez and organizing leader Dolores Huerta, which would later become known as the United Farm Workers (UFW). [2] Richard Chavez spearheaded the construction of the United Farm Workers' union hall, which became its headquarters, in Delano, California ...
Dolores Huerta is a pioneering civil rights leader, labor activist and feminist whose work has helped reshape the landscape of social justice in the United States. Huerta's contributions have ...