Civil rights activist and labor leader Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s, talks about how they fought to improve working conditions for ...

Dolores Huerta really wants people in Orange County to vote in the Nov. 6 election. How do we address wealth inequality, asked Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Works. Vote, she answered. How ...

As co-founder of the United Farm Workers union, Dolores Huerta led picket lines, boycotts and negotiated with grape growers at a time when there were few female leaders in the labor movement.

(WOMENSENEWS)–California grape pickers, usually Filipino or Mexican, toiled in the sun, denied drinking water and bathrooms and earning less than $10 a day. Among those dedicated to fighting these and ...

Dolores Huerta joined a crowd of about 300 at Constitution Park in Stockton to greet United Farm Worker marchers on their 24-day, 335-mile march to Sacramento.

After witnessing such conditions, Huerta and Chavez, leading the United Farm Workers, organized a strike to begin in 1965 that would become one of the largest strikes in U.S. history.Delano Grape ...

Dolores Huerta joined a crowd of about 300 at Constitution Park in Stockton to greet United Farm Worker marchers on their 24-day, 335-mile march to Sacramento.

As the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil-rights movement for African Americans in the 1960s, another battle — for farmworker ...

On what would be the 94th birthday of Cesar Chavez, his United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta is still advocating for farmworker rights and protections – including COVID vaccines.

Cesar Chavez — who is Chavez Rodriguez’s grandfather — and co-organizer Dolores Huerta founded the National Farm Workers Assn., which in 1966 consolidated with the Filipino Agricultural ...

Bruce Frasier's family has been growing fruits and vegetables near Carrizo Springs since 1913, when Woodrow Wilson was president and a gallon of gas cost 12 cents. The farm survived the two World ...

Description. Civil rights activist and labor leader Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s, talks about how they fought to improve working ...