Dolores Huerta Research Paper

Dolores Huerta was an activist and labor leader who was born in Dawson, New Mexico on April 10th, 1930. In her early life, Dolores’ parents went through a divorce when she was 3 years old. Because of the divorce, her mother decided to bring Dolores and her two brothers with her to stockton, California; luckily Dolores was fortunate enough to maintain a relationship with her father despite being separated from him. Even though Dolores’ mother struggled to provide for her family, she still managed to give Dolores and her brothers the opportunity to do music lessons and other extracurricular activities. Not only was she talented, but was a great student who even won second place in a national essay contest.

Sadly, like many other Mexicans/Mexican-Americans, Dolores experienced racism; Being a farm worker's child did not help either. I personally know a little more on
After wanting to help make a difference in these Agricultural families lives, Dolores started the Agricultural Workers Association (AWA) in 1960, which basically tried to help non u.s. Citizen migrant workers to gain help from the government and by trying to lobby politicians to create spanish language voting ballots. Dolores then met, Cesar Chavez around the time and they both worked together to lobby politicians to help farm workers in any way. Because they both felt like there wasn’t enough progress being done, they decided to create the NFWA which later on became the United Farm Workers. All together, they organized strikes, boycotts and negotiated better contracts for farm workers.

Because of her hard work, she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award and later on in 2002 received the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship($100,000 award), which gave her the idea to create the Dolores Huerta Foundation to help low-income