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Named Person: | Dolores Huerta; Dolores Huerta |
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Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mario T García |
ISBN: | 0826345131 9780826345134 |
OCLC Number: | 231724520 |
Description: | xxix, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction : La Pasionaria Chicana -- pt. 1. On Dolores Huerta -- 1. Dolores Huerta : the United Farm Workers Union / Margaret Rose -- 2. Coleadership : the strength of Dolores Huerta / Richard Griswold del Castillo, Richard A. García -- 3. César Chávez and Dolores Huerta : partners in "La Causa" / Margaret Rose -- 4. Traditional and nontraditional patterns of female activism in the United Farm Workers of America, 1962-1980 / Margaret Rose -- 5. Unsung heroine of La Causa / Jean Murphy -- 6. The women of the boycott / Barbara L. Baer, Glenna Matthews -- 7. Sorrow in the orchards : her life for years / Eileen Foley -- 8. Stopping traffic : one woman's cause / Barbara L. Baer -- 9. Dolores Huerta : La Pasionaria of the farmworkers / Judith Coburn -- 10. Dolores Huerta mothers eleven kids, one labor union / Nelda Clemmons -- 11. UFW official operated on after S.F. beating / Scott Forter -- 12. From the fields into the history books / Ruth Carranza -- 13. UFW co-founder comes out of labor shadow / Lisa Genasci -- 14. Woman of the year : Dolores Huerta, for a lifetime of labor championing the rights of farmworkers / Julie Felner -- 15. The eternal soldadera / James Rainey -- 16. Labor leader Dolores Huerta credits family and faith / María Luisa Torres -- 17. Campus workers urged to unite / Ryan Floersheim. pt. 2. Dolores Huerta speaks -- 18. Dolores Huerta talks about Republicans, César Chávez, children, and her home town -- 19. Interview with Dolores Huerta : early family influences / Vincent Harding -- 20. Testimony of Dolores Huerta -- 21. Letters written by Dolores Huerta to César Chávez, 1962-1964 -- 22. Statement of Dolores Huerta, Vice President, United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, to U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, July 15, 1969 -- 23. Teamsters and UFW debate, 1973 -- 24. Keynote address before the Annual Convention of the American Public Health Association, October 21, 1974, New Orleans, Louisiana -- 25. Speech given by Dolores Huerta, UCLA, February 22, 1978 -- 26. Dialogue on leadership and popular movements : the UFW experience, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, March 12, 1985 -- 27. A life of sacrifice for farm workers / Dolores Huerta -- 28. Bush's "cowboy mentality" : interview with Dolores Huerta -- 29. Interview with Dolores Huerta, community leader and activist -- 30. An interview with Dolores Huerta / Frances Ortega -- 31. Dolores Huerta : the vision and voice of her life's work / Julia Bencomo Lobaco -- 32. Dolores Huerta on Fr. Luis Olivares : interview with Mario T. García, April 5, 2005 -- 33. "Our fight is your fight" : civil rights leaders Dolores Huerta & Julian Bond speak out loud and clear for GLBT equality -- 34. Respect, Spanish, and unemployment insurance -- 35. Dolores Huerta on spirituality : interview with Mario T. García, June 1, 2007 -- Bibliography. |
Responsibility: | edited by Mario T. García. |
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Farm labor leader and civil rights advocate Dolores Huerta first worked with Cesar Chavez as a community organizer in Mexican American areas of southern California in the mid-1950s. This book includes a biographical introduction, articles and book excerpts written about her, and her own writing and speeches.
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Superb Introduction to Huerta's Life and Thought
This book is divided into two halves: the first is a collection of scholarly and journalistic articles on Dolores Huerta's life and significance, the second presents accounts of Huerta in her own voice - interviews, articles, speeches, etc. For any student s investigating Huerta, this is a superb...
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This book is divided into two halves: the first is a collection of scholarly and journalistic articles on Dolores Huerta's life and significance, the second presents accounts of Huerta in her own voice - interviews, articles, speeches, etc. For any student s investigating Huerta, this is a superb starting point.
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- Huerta, Dolores, -- 1930-
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- Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States.
- Dirigeantes syndicales américaines d'origine mexicaine.
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