Dolores Huerta: Advocate for Women and Workers

Dolores Huerta: Advocate for Women and Workers — page 1 — Photographs Alamy epa european pressphoto agency b v page 20 Getty Images Beck Starr title page Arthur Schatz page 15 Cathy Murphy pages 17 22 Valerie Macon page 23 Carlos Chavez page 24 Al Schaben page 25 Alberto E Rodriguez page 26 Shutterstock com ToskanaINC pages 12-13 Rena Schild page 27 top right Music4mix page 30 The National Portrait Gallery View of One Life Dolores Huerta a 2015 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution Photo by Matailong Du page 28 The Image Works 1976 George Ballis Take Stock pages 14 16 18 19 29 The Library of Congress page 11 Wikimedia commons US Department of Labor cover pages 4-5 public domain pages 6-7 8-9 10 Gage Skidmore page 21 T Murphy pages 26-27 bottom All other images from Shutterstock About the author Linda Barghoorn grew up in Fonthill Ontario and attended Brock University in St Catharines where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in German She spent twenty years living outside Canada in Europe and the Middle East during which time she began writing about and photographing her experiences She is married with two grown daughters and lives and works in Toronto Canada Author Linda Barghoorn Series research and development Reagan Miller Editorial director Kathy Middleton Editor Crystal Sikkens Proofreader Wendy Scavuzzo Photo researcher Crystal Sikkens Designer and prepress technician Samara Parent Print coordinator Margaret Amy Salter Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data CIP available at the Library of Congress Barghoorn Linda author Dolores Huerta advocate for women and workers Linda Barghoorn Remarkable lives revealed Includes index Issued in print and electronic formats ISBN 978-0-7787-3418-5 hardback ISBN 978-0-7787-3422-2 paperback ISBN 978-1-4271-1917-9 html 1 Huerta Dolores 1930 Juvenile literature 2 Mexican American women labor leaders Biography Juvenile literature 3 Women social reformers United States Biography Juvenile literature 4 Labor leaders United States Biography Juvenile literature 5 Social reformers United States Biography Juvenile literature I Title HD6509 H84B37 2017 j331 88'13092 C2016-907095-6 C2016-907096-4 Crabtree Publishing Company www crabtreebooks com Copyright 2017 CRABTREE PUBLISHING COMPANY All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or be transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Crabtree Publishing Company In Canada We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities 1-800-387-7650 Published in Canada Crabtree Publishing 616 Welland Ave St Catharines Ontario L2M 5V6 Published inthe United States Crabtree Publishing PMB 59051 350 Fifth Ave 59th Floor New York NY 10118 Published in theUnited Kingdom Crabtree Publishing Maritime House Basin Road North Hove BN41 1WR Published in Australia Crabtree Publishing 3 Charles Street Coburg North VIC 3058

Dolores Huerta: Advocate for Women and Workers — page 3 — n o i t c u d o r t n I Dolores Huerta Everyone has a story to share These stories are known as biographies and they help us better understand each other and the world around us Some people’s stories might be well known but others may not Even a story that isn’t well known can be remarkable and can inspire others This is because everyone has different ideas of what makes someone remarkable Many remarkable people show certain qualities such as commitment sacrifice and good values As you read through Dolores Huerta’s story look for qualities in her that many people consider to be remarkable What Is a Biography A biography is the story of a person’s life We read biographies to learn about a person’s experiences and thoughts Biographies can be based on many sources of information Primary sources include a person’s own words or pictures Secondary sources include friends family and media Dolores speaks at a ceremony honoring the Farm Workers Movement 4

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