The recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Huerta continues as an outstanding labor and political activist. She also led the struggle to achieve unemployment insurance, collective bargaining rights, and immigration rights for farmworkers under the 1985 Rodino amnesty legalization program. She led the fight to permit thousands of migrant / immigrant children to receive services. Dolores Huerta has not gotten her due for the pivotal role she played in the farmworker movement, especially when compared to César Chávez’s notoriety, notes Caragol. Always politically active, she co-chaired the 1972 California delegation to the Democratic Convention. The 1965 Delano Grape Strike launched UFW into a period of fast-paced organizing, with Huerta negotiating contracts with growers, lobbying, organizing strikes and boycotts and well as spearheading farmworker political activities. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.” Huerta raised her own eleven children while organizing for the labor movement. life as an activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW). She said, “I quit because I couldn’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. Dolores Huerta, Huelga, during grape strike, Delano, California, Sept. Huerta left teaching and co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez in 1962. Dolores Huerta is one the century’s most powerful and respected labor movement leaders.
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