A Dolores Huerta Reader

by Mario T. García

Book Overview

Farm labor leader and civil rights advocate Dolores Huerta first worked with C?sar Ch?vez as a community organizer in Mexican American areas of southern California in the mid-1950s. Ch?vez dreamed of organizing farm workers, and in 1962 he started the National Farm Workers Association. He asked Huerta to work with them, and in the next three years they recruited a number of members. In 1965 the NFWA joined the AFL-CIO-affiliated Agricultural Workers'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826345131
• ISBN13: 9780826345134
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"