Latest information. Each week, american artifacts, takes you to historic locations to reveal what artifacts say about american history. Huertasearn about life, how she became involved in activism, and her role with the National Farmworkers movement and the delano grape strike in the 1960s. Is ane we are, this exhibition for dolores where to Dolores Huerta. This is part of our nineyearold series. We said we wanted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the delano grape strike. Ofdid that on an exhibition Dolores Huerta who was, and Cesar Chavezs own words, the coarchitect of the movement with him. She was instrumental to the major achievements of that movement that gave dignity and improved the conditions of migrant farmworkers. Not as many people are familiar erta as they hu are with cesar chavez. We wanted to bring her life and contributions to light. Please come inside. The information starts here with some materials that give a sense of her background and how she got into Community
What artifacts say about american history. Next, a tour an exhibition about the civil activist, dolores wherhuerta. We will learn about huertas life, how she became involved in activism, and her role with the National Farmworkers movement and the delano grape strike in the 1960s. Here we are, this is an exhibition for Dolores Huerta. This is part of our nineyearold series. We said we wanted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the delano grape strike. Which launched of the Farmworkers Movement in september 1965. We did that on an exhibition of Dolores Huerta who was, and Cesar Chavezs own words, the coarchitect of the movement with him. She was instrumental to the major achievements of that movement that gave dignity and improved the conditions of migrant farmworkers. Not as many people are familiar with Dolores Huerta as they are with cesar chavez. We wanted to bring her life and contributions to light. Please come inside. The information starts here with some materials that give a
But if you say united farm workers, if you say cesar chavez, if you say the grape boycott of the 1970s, then people kind of start piecing it together. But you are an extraordinary leader in your own right, dolores. And i kind of wonder, how do you put that into place, where on the one hand you were side by side this amazing leader, cesar chavez, and yet you were a leader onto yourself, but always a little bit behind the scenes. I think we did different tasks. I mean, i was pretty visible, actually. Maybe not in the media, but excuse me i was in charge of negotiations, i ran the picket lines, i was the political director of the farm workers union, and i also directed the grape boycott on the east coast. And then after we cleaned up all the stores on the east coast, i went back to california and did the same thing on the west coast. So in many circles i was a very visible person. Hinojosa you were incredibly visible in terms of the workers themselves, too. I mean, you had such a close re
Workersxt, united farm cofounder, though lotus where huerta,olores discusses the Farmworkers Movement and cesar chavez. It is about two hours. Panel brings one of the icons of the movement to our Dolores Huerta, cofounder of the United Farm Workers Movement with cesar chavez. [applause] nationala directed the boycott during the National Grape strike. She has been involved in the fight since 1955. She has been arrested more than 20 times for leading nonviolent protests. Named one of the most important women of the 20th oftury, and has dozens really important awards, including the Eleanor Roosevelt award for human rights, which was bestowed on her by president clinton, and the president ial medal of freedom by president obama. [applause] her is miriam powell, a hasnalist, author who researched the united farm workers and cesar chavez. Her recent work won the Robert F Kennedy prize, and was a finalist for the National Critics circle. As a journalist, she has spent 25 years as an awardwinn
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