Dolores Huerta

Bio

Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activists who, alongside Cesar Chavez, was responsible for co-founding the Nation Farmworkers Association that has now become the United Farm Workers Committee. Huerta was integral in helping organize the Delano Grape strike in 1965 in California and followed as the lead negotiator in the worker's contract established after the strike. She continues her activism as head of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which trains community organizers and participation.

Reading Materials

Kids Books:

• Lola out loud: inspired by the childhood of activist Dolores Huerta by Jennifer Torres

• Side by side: the story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez by Monica Brown

• Dolores Huerta stands strong: the woman who demanded justice by Marlene Targ Brill