Dolores Huerta

Dolores C. Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is the co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO(UFW).

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April 10 - 1930 - United Farm Workers - AFL-CIO

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She was born on in a mining town in northern New Mexico, where her father, Juan Fernandez, was a miner, field worker, union activist and State Assemblyman. Her parents divorced when she was three years old. Her mother, Alicia Chavez, raised Dolores, along with her two brothers, and two sisters, in the central San Joaquin Valley farm worker community of Stockton, California. Her mother was a businesswoman who owned a restaurant and a 70-room hotel, which often put up farm worker families for free.

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New Mexico - San Joaquin Valley - Stockton, California

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Dolores directed the UFW?s national grape boycott taking the plight of the farmworkers to the consumers. The boycott resulted in the entire California table grape industry signing a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the United Farm Workers.

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California - Grape

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As an advocate for farm worker rights Dolores has been arrested twenty-two times for non-violent peaceful union activities.

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