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Famous Person We Admire
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Dolores Huerta.
Source URL: Date Published: 2015
Dolores Huerta
Biography
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Basic information Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta born on April 10, 1930, in Dawson,
New Mexico, Huerta was the second of three children of Alicia and
Juan Fernandez, a farm worker and miner who became a state
legislator in 1938. Her parents divorced when Huerta was three years
old, and her mother moved to Stockton, California with her children.

Reasons for fame Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Clara
Fernandez Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the
20th century and a leader of the Chicano civil rights movement.

Key life events Huerta’s grandfather helped raise Huerta and her two brothers while
her mother juggled jobs as a waitress and cannery worker until she
could buy a small hotel and restaurant. Alicia’s community activism
and compassionate treatment of workers greatly influenced her
daughter.

She married Ralph Head while a student and had two daughters,
though the couple soon divorced. She subsequently married fellow
activist Ventura Huerta with whom she had five children, though that
marriage also did not last.
Key achievements In 1955, Dolores was a founding member of the Stockton chapter of
the Community Service Organization or CSO, an organization started
by Fred Ross, Sr. The CSO battled segregation and police brutality.

Dolores organized and founded the "Agricultural Workers

Association" or AWA (the association of agricultural workers) in 1960.

She became a fearless lobbyist in Sacramento, and in 1961 she

succeeded in getting the citizenship requirements removed from the
pension and public assistance programs.
 Dolores lobbied in Sacramento and Washington D.C., organized farm
strikes, led UFW boycotts, and led farmworker campaigns for political
candidates. As a lawyer for the legislature, Dolores became one of
the most visible spokespersons for the UFW.
Reasons to admire In 1973, Huerta led another consumer boycott of grapes that resulted
in the ground-breaking California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of
1975, which allowed farm workers to form unions and bargain for
better wages and conditions. Throughout the 1970s and ‘80s, Huerta
worked as a lobbyist to improve workers’ legislative representation.
During the 1990s and 2000s, she worked to elect more Latinos and
women to political office and has championed women’s issues.

The recipient of many honors, Huerta received the Eleanor Roosevelt

Human Rights Award in 1998 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 2012. As of 2015, she was a board member of the Feminist
Majority Foundation, the Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus of the United
Farm Workers of America, and the President of the Dolores Huerta
Foundation.

Presentation Template Students Name Yoselin Gomez

& Ruby Carreto
Famous Person We Admire

Title Dolores Clara Presenters Yoselin Gomez

Fernández & Ruby Carreto
Huerta

Introduction
Presentation Main Idea Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta is a famous person
that we admire.

Section 1 Dolores Huerta had to cope with different changes in

her childhood.
Section 2 A leader of the Chicano civil rights movement.

Section 3 Huerta has many personal qualities that we admire.

Section 1 – Description of Person

Main Idea A leader of the Chicano civil rights movement
Basic information
Reason for fame
Section 2 – Life Events and Achievements
Main Idea
Key life events
Key achievements
Section 3 – Reasons I admire him or her
Main Idea
Huerta born on April 10, 1930, in Dawson, New Mexico,
Huerta was the second of three children of Alicia and
Juan Fernandez.
Alicia’s community activism and compassionate
treatment of workers greatly influenced her daughter.
Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association,
Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is one of the most
influential labor activists of the 20th century and a leader
of the Chicano civil rights movement.
A leader of the Chicano civil rights movement.
Huerta's grandfather helped raise Huerta and her two
brothers, while her mother juggled different jobs.
Huerta married Ralph Head while she was a student and
had two daughters, although the couple soon divorced.
She later married fellow activist Ventura Huerta with
whom she had five children, although that marriage did
not last either.
Dolores organized and founded the "Agricultural Workers
Association" or AWA (the association of agricultural
workers) in 1960.
She became a fearless lobbyist in Sacramento, and in
1961 she succeeded in getting the citizenship
requirements removed from the pension and public
assistance programs.
Huerta has many personal qualities that we admire.

Reason to Huerta led another consumer boycott of grapes that

admire 1 resulted in the ground-breaking California Agricultural
Labor Relations Act of 1975, which allowed farm workers
to form unions and bargain for better wages and
conditions. Throughout the 1970s and ‘80s
Reason to The recipient of many honors, Huerta received the Eleanor
admire 2 Roosevelt Human Rights Award in 1998 and the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Reason to As of 2015, she was a board member of the Feminist
admire 3 Majority Foundation, the Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus of
the United Farm Workers of America, and the President of
the Dolores Huerta Foundation.