X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Dolores Huerta


Dolores Huerta

That same year, Ladies' Home Journal recognized her as one of the 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, along with such women leaders as Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher, Rosa Parks, and Indira Gandhi.

Helen Fabela Chávez

Unlike female labor activists of the time, such as Dolores Huerta, Helen's activities were considered "essentially auxiliary; she helped in the office, mimeographing fliers or sorting the mail, but usually worked at home after her domestic chores were done and the children were asleep".

Philip Vera Cruz

AWOC was composed primarily of Filipino American farmworker organizers, although it did hire Dolores Huerta.



see also