Dolores Huerta: Voice for the Working Poor

From the Series Crabtree Groundbreaker Biographies
  • Interest Level: Grade 5 - Grade 9
  • Reading Level: Grade 6

Born in 1930 in a small mining town in New Mexico and raised in the farming region of California's San Joaquin Valley, Dolores Huerta (born Dolores Fernández) grew up in a climate charged by political activism. Fueled by her own contact with migrant farm workers - most of them Mexican immigrants - Dolores became an outspoken activist and organizer. At the time, these workers had virtually no access to the system of labor laws and conditions under which they lived and worked. When she founded the United Farm Workers in 1962 with legendary Mexican American labor leader César Chávez, it became a seminal moment in U.S. labor history. This brave and resourceful leader in the struggle for human rights also worked toward improving the lives of workers, voters, immigrants, and women.

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Interest Level Grade 5 - Grade 9
Reading Level Grade 6
Age Range 10 - 14
Dewey 331.88
Lexile 910L
ATOS Reading Level
Guided Reading Level W
Subjects History
Genres Nonfiction
Publisher Crabtree Publishing
Imprint Crabtree Classics
Copyright 2011
Number of Pages 112
Dimensions 7.25 x 9.25
Graphics
BISACS JNF007110, JNF007050, JNF007120
Rights Included WORLD
Language English

Author: Alex Van Tol