Farm labor leader and civil rights advocate Dolores Huerta first
worked with Cesar Chavez as a community organizer in Mexican
American areas of southern California in the mid-1950s. Chavez
dreamed of organizing farm workers, and in 1962 he started the
National Farm Workers Association. He asked Huerta to work with
them, and in the next three years they recruited a number of
members. In 1965 the NFWA joined the AFL-CIO-affiliated
Agricultural Workers' Committee in a strike against large grape
growers in the San Joaquin Valley--a five-year strike that raised
national awareness of the dismal treatment of the workers and led
to the formation of the United Farm Workers union.
Huerta's contributions to these efforts were invaluable in
recruiting women for the cause, in keeping the union focused on
nonviolent actions, and in gaining support in the eastern United
States for the effective grape boycott that led to contracts for
the union. Ten years after they started, they celebrated the
passage of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act. They had made
history.
This is the first book to focus on Dolores Huerta. Throughout
six decades of activism, she has made her own history and has been
part of major events in the history of the country, standing
alongside Robert Kennedy the night he was assassinated. Often
called "la Pasionaria," the passionate one, she continues to speak
out on labor, environmental, antiwar, and women's issues. "A
Dolores Huerta Reader" includes an informative biographical
introduction, articles and book excerpts written about her, her own
writing and speeches, and a recent interview with Mario GarcA-a
where she expresses her unbending dedication to social justice.
Anyonewho wants to know more about Dolores Huerta should start with
this book.
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