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Explain how the childhood experiences of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta shaped their careers as labor activists. Describe the challenges in the 1980s that hurt the United Farm Workers.
Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the United Farmworkers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). [2]
Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta stands as one of the most influential activists and labor organizers of the 20 th century. Together with labor leader Cesar Chavez, Huerta co-founded the United...
Dolores Huerta, renowned American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers union alongside Cesar Chavez.
Cesar Chavez, organizer of migrant American farmworkers and a cofounder with Dolores Huerta of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in 1962. In recognition of his nonviolent activism and support of working people, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
Resting on his back in a small room, with UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta by his side, Cesar was briefed by a group of local Latino labor and political leaders about political realities in the state. The leaders offered a refrain Cesar and Dolores heard many times: The grower lobby that dominated state politics, the Legislature and governor was ...
Huerta was the driving force behind the nationwide table grape boycotts in the late 1960s that led to a successful union contract by 1970. At 93, Dolores Huerta continues to work tirelessly developing leaders and advocating for the working poor, women, and children.
THE UNITED FARM WORKERS IS BORN. In 1962 Cesar founded the National Farm Workers Association, later to become the United Farm Workers – the UFW. He was joined by Dolores Huerta and the union was born. That same year Richard Chavez designed the UFW Eagle and Cesar chose the black and red colors.
Chavez also discovered a fiery, young single mother from Stockton, California, Dolores Huerta. Huerta channeled her father’s United Mine Workers background and her experience working among Filipino field workers in her mother’s restaurant and hotel business to build an effective strategy for organizing agricultural communities across racial ...
CSO is also where Chávez also met Dolores Huerta, who became a lifelong friend and ally in his fight for workers’ rights.