Dolores Huerta

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Dolores Huerta in Phoenix, Arizona, 2016

Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta (born April 10, 1930 Dawson , New Mexico ) is an American trade unionist and civil rights activist . She is co-founder and treasurer of the United Farm Workers (UFW) agricultural workers union and vice president of the California AFL-CIO . She is a well-known activist who has always considered women's equality and issues of social justice together in her commitment.

biography

Her parents divorced when she was three years old. Her mother Alicia Chaves raised Dolores and her two brothers and two sisters alone. They lived among farm workers in Stockton , California's San Joaquin Valley . Her mother was a businesswoman. She owned a restaurant and a hotel with 70 rooms, in which farm workers' families were often allowed to live for free.

From 1964 on, Dolores Huerta developed into a respected negotiating partner for the interests of the field workers' union. Her Vice-Presidency at AFL-CIO is seen as an indicator of a formally more self-confident role of women in unions that have been dominated by men.

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  2. Glenna Matthews: The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970. P. 232 ( Google Books )
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  4. The White House: President Obama Names Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients (April 26, 2012, accessed May 30, 2012)