The Dolores Huerta Foundation. Dolores Huerta
Foundation. 30 Apr. 2012 .
"www.doloreshuerta.org"
Dolores Huerta
One of the key
players of the UFW was Dolores Huerta. In all the strikes, the leading
expertise of Cesar would have been a failure if it was not the skillful negotiator
of Ms. Huerta. As a teacher and a well to do family member, she didn’t wait and
set hoping for change to come to the people’s way. Rather she picked up the “Hulugna”
and continued to fight the fight of what people thought men’s fight. Besides,
bringing powerful people to the table for discussion is half the battle but
persuades farmers’ opponents was the other half. Using her knowledge and
language skills, Huerta pushed hard and made growers to agree with the best terms
the union brought forth and this was the enormous achievement. Huerta once
said, “I couldn’t stand seeing farm worker children come to class hungry and in
need of shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by
trying to teach their hungry children.” She has done what she has committed her
life for and her commitment was magnanimous.
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