A Dolores Huerta reader / edited by Mario T. García.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García, Mario T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Huerta, Dolores, 1930-.

Mexican American women labor leaders--United States.

Agricultural laborers--Labor unions--Organizing--United States.

Agricultural laborers--Labor unions--Organizing.

Mexican American women labor leaders.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxix, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

Summary:

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. Chavez dreamed of organizing farm workers, and in 1962 he started the National Farm Workers Association. He asked Huerta to work with him, and in the next three years they recruited a number of members. In 1965 the NFWA joined the AFL-CIO-affiliated Agricultural Workers' Committee in a strike against large grape growers in the San Joaquin Valley-a five-year strike that raised national awareness of the dismal treatment of the workers and led to the formation of the United Farm Workers union.

Huerta's contributions to these efforts were invaluable in recruiting women for the cause, keeping the union focused on nonviolent actions, and gaining support in the eastern United States for the effective grape boycott that led to contracts for the union.

This is the first book to focus on Dolores Huerta. Often called la Pasionaria, the passionate one, she continues to speak out on labor, environmental, antiwar, and women's issues. A Dolores Huerta Reader includes an informative biographical introduction, articles and book excerpts written about her, her own writings and speeches, and a recent interview with Mario Garcia in which she expresses her unbending dedication to social justice.

Contents:

Introduction: La Pasionaria Chicana xv

Part 1 On Dolores Huerta

Chapter 1 Dolores Huerta: The United Farm Workers Union / Margaret Rose 3

Chapter 2 Coleadership: The Strength of Dolores Huerta / Richard Griswold del Castillo, Richard A. Garcia 23

Chapter 3 Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta: Partners in "La Causa" / Margaret Rose 39

Chapter 4 Traditional and Nontraditional Patterns of Female Activism in the United Farm Workers of America, 1962-1980 / Margaret Rose 53

Chapter 5 Unsung Heroine of La Causa / Jean Murphy 75

Chapter 6 The Women of the Boycott / Barbara L. Baer, Glenna Matthews 79

Chapter 7 Sorrow in the Orchards: Her Life for Years / Eileen Foley 93

Chapter 8 Stopping Traffic: One Woman's Cause / Barbara L. Baer 97

Chapter 9 Dolores Huerta: La Pasionaria of the Farmworkers / Judith Coburn 105

Chapter 10 Dolores Huerta Mothers Eleven Kids, One Labor Union / Nelda Clemmons 115

Chapter 11 UFW Official Operated on After S.F. Beating / Scott Forter 119

Chapter 12 From the Fields Into the History Books / Ruth Carranza 123

Chapter 13 UFW Co-Founder Comes out of Labor Shadow / Lisa Genasci 129

Chapter 14 Woman of the Year: Dolores Huerta, For a Lifetime of Labor Championing the Rights of Farmworkers / Julie Felner 133

Chapter 15 The Eternal Soldadera / James Rainey 141

Chapter 16 Labor Leader Dolores Huerta Credits Family and Faith / Maria Luisa Torres 155

Chapter 17 Campus Workers Urged to Unite / Ryan Floersheim 159

Part 2 Dolores Huerta Speaks

Chapter 18 Dolores Huerta Talks about Republicans, Cesar Chavez, Children, and Her Home Town 163

Chapter 19 Interview with Dolores Huerta: Early Family Influences / Vincent Harding 177

Chapter 20 Testimony of Dolores Huerta 187

Chapter 21 Letters Written by Dolores Huerta to Cesar Chavez, 1962-1964 195

Chapter 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 213

Chapter 23 Teamsters and UFW Debate, 1973 219

Chapter 24 Keynote Address before the Annual Convention of the American Public Health Association, October 21, 1974, New Orelans, Louisiana 229

Chapter 25 Speech Given by Dolores Huerta, UCLA, February 22, 1978 241

Chapter 26 Dialogue on Leadership and Popular Movements: The UFW Experience, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, March 12, 1985 259

Chapter 27 A Life of Sacrifice for Farm Workers / Dolores Huerta 279

Chapter 28 Bush's "Cowboy Mentality": Interview with Dolores Huerta 287

Chapter 29 Interview with Dolores Huerta, Community Leader and Activist 291

Chapter 30 An Interview with Dolores Huerta / Frances Ortega 295

Chapter 31 Dolores Huerta: The Vision and Voice of Her Life's Work / Julia Bencomo Lobaco 303

Chapter 32 Dolores Huerta on Fr. Luis Olivares: Interview with Mario T. Garcia, April 5, 2005 313

Chapter 33 "Our Fight Is Your Fight": Civil Rights Leaders Dolores Huerta & Julian Bond Speak Out Loud and Clear for GLBT Equality 321

Chapter 34 Respect, Spanish, and Unemployment Insurance 327

Chapter 35 Dolores Huerta on Spirituality: Interview with Mario T. Garcia, June 1, 2007 331.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-350).

ISBN:

9780826345134

0826345131

OCLC:

231724520