Dolores Huerta

their biggest impacts. These are the events that helped them progress in their fight for rights and equality. In 1962 the United Farm Workers Association was created by Cesar Chaves who was a civil rights activist during this time along with Dolores Huerta. It wasn’t until 1965 when the (UFWA) joined Filipinos in the Delano Grape Strike. A strike…

Association, (NFWA), in September 1962. (page 31). Failure to protect “Chavistas” from violence perpetrated by enemies, started show his “addiction to boycotts and his own power”. (page 116). Matt Garcia also talks about other UFW leaders, such as Dolores Huerta, Gilbert Padilla, Jerry Cohen and Marshall Ganz. I found this interesting because much is talked about Cesar, but not much of the other leaders. And of course, Jerry Brown, not the future Governor of California, (page 44), and how he…

America. A land founded on the principles of freedom and equality for all regardless of origin, to pursue life, liberty and happiness. A belief and principle established by the men and women who escaped the clutches of tyranny in their homeland of the far east, to establish a greater country that was on the far opposite of the spectrum. However, it is clear and apparent that this idea of freedom is, in many ways, selective and limited. People who did not belong to a certain race, religion and or…

Civil Liberties are privileges designed to protect citizens from the government. These liberties are accompanied by the Bill of Rights and were aimed to prevent the government from becoming too powerful. Whereas, Civil Rights are targeted towards minorities and protect individuals who continue being discriminated from other individuals. Both Civil Liberties and Civil Rights have been a struggle to achieve, these two are constantly evolving. Civil liberties have evolved since the existence of…

workers treated in the United States. Around the time of the civil rights movement in the United States, there was another issue across the nation. In 1962, Chavez became the founder of the National Farm Workers Association with labor leader Dolores Huerta. The organization was dedicated to the rights of migrant workers. Chavez advocated strikes, picketing, boycotts, marches and several additional nonresistant methods to gain uniformity in the work force. The most famous protest came in…

the workers, and he made sure that everyone understood their role. Not only was this true, but he helped pay for the organization, as well as start it. On top of all of this, he established a very strong innercircle, consisting of people like Dolores Huerta, that was diverse. This would have helped give more solutions to problems, and also kept everything in check. He also had workers who he trusted and cared about. A strong foundation for an organization should have a strong inner circle, a…

Equality is the state of being equal, which means everyone in a society has the same rights and opportunities. Groups of people, such as African Americans and women, have been fighting for equality for millennial years. Currently, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people are fighting for equal treatment. The obstacles faced by a person, or group of people, can determine how their life will turn out. Like any group of people, the Latinos have faced issues in the past, currently facing…

still does not see what Chicana women had to go through to maintain their spot in society today, although it may not be what women desire. When the civil rights movement are mentioned one may think of MLK or Cesar Chavez, but people don’t know who Dolores Huerta or Cherrie Moraga is. This movie is inspirational not only to women but to feminist men who realize women's struggle. Being a mother is one of the hardest jobs for women because they need to protect their children, but also because they…

Hispanics. The LULAC sued the Orange County School System in 1945 because the segregation of the schools were based on that all Mexican children were inferior and poorly clothed to the whites. The LULAC won. Cesar Chavez (1927-93), with the help of Dolores Huerta, formed the National Farm Workers Association, which was later known as the United Farm Workers. Chavez and the United Farm Workers joined the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee on its strike against grape growers in California.…

organizing labour in 1952 when he met Donald McDonnell, an activist priest. He began to recruit Chavez to join his group and within years he had become director. In 1962 after quitting, Cesar Chavez implemented his power and knowledge alongside Dolores Huerta and cofounded the United Farm Workers Association (Castillo, 1975). Farm workers were typically denied a decent and valuable life working in the fields, and made less than a dollar an hour working in miserable conditions. When workers asked…