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Dolores Huerta
I
was actually very shy as as a a a a a child but my mother was always pushing me to get out there and be active So I
Dolores Huerta
87 rose to prominence as an an organizer labor leader and civil rights activist in California In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Farm Workers Workers Association (now United Farm Farm Workers) where they led boycotts and negotiated better conditions and pay for farmworkers Huerta
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 got involved in in in a a a lot of organizations in in in our community: the Girl Scouts a church club We would sing at the hospital do dances and raise money and and then give out Christmas and and Thanksgiving baskets In high school I
organized a a teen center A lot of my friends were poor and didn’t really have money to go places We brought in in a a jukebox table tennis just trying to create a a a space where kids could come together and socialize But the the police shut us down They didn’t want the interracial — we we were a a a very multiethnic group We had white kids African American friends and Asians Filipinos and Mexicans all together All the the time I’d been doing the the social organizing and never being able to do anything that I
thought really PubDate: 07-09-17
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