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Title:

A Dolores Huerta reader / edited by Mario T. García.

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xxix, 350 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Huerta, Dolores,--1930-
Mexican American women labor leaders--United States.
Agricultural laborers--Organizing--Organizing--United States.

Other Authors:

García, Mario T.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-350).

Contents:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction : La Pasionaria Chicana -- pt. 1. On Dolores Huerta -- 1. Dolores Huerta : the United Farm Workers Union / Margaret Rose -- 2. Coleadership : the strength of Dolores Huerta / Richard Griswold del Castillo, Richard A. García -- 3. César Chávez and Dolores Huerta : partners in "La Causa" / Margaret Rose -- 4. Traditional and nontraditional patterns of female activism in the United Farm Workers of America, 1962-1980 / Margaret Rose -- 5. Unsung heroine of La Causa / Jean Murphy -- 6. The women of the boycott / Barbara L. Baer, Glenna Matthews -- 7. Sorrow in the orchards : her life for years / Eileen Foley -- 8. Stopping traffic : one woman's cause / Barbara L. Baer -- 9. Dolores Huerta : La Pasionaria of the farmworkers / Judith Coburn -- 10. Dolores Huerta mothers eleven kids, one labor union / Nelda Clemmons -- 11. UFW official operated on after S.F. beating / Scott Forter -- 12. From the fields into the history books / Ruth Carranza -- 13. UFW co-founder comes out of labor shadow / Lisa Genasci -- 14. Woman of the year : Dolores Huerta, for a lifetime of labor championing the rights of farmworkers / Julie Felner -- 15. The eternal soldadera / James Rainey -- 16. Labor leader Dolores Huerta credits family and faith / María Luisa Torres -- 17. Campus workers urged to unite / Ryan Floersheim --
pt. 2. Dolores Huerta speaks -- 18. Dolores Huerta talks about Republicans, César Chávez, children, and her home town -- 19. Interview with Dolores Huerta : early family influences / Vincent Harding -- 20. Testimony of Dolores Huerta -- 21. Letters written by Dolores Huerta to César Chávez, 1962-1964 -- 22. Statement of Dolores Huerta, Vice President, United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, to U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, July 15, 1969 -- 23. Teamsters and UFW debate, 1973 -- 24. Keynote address before the Annual Convention of the American Public Health Association, October 21, 1974, New Orleans, Louisiana -- 25. Speech given by Dolores Huerta, UCLA, February 22, 1978 -- 26. Dialogue on leadership and popular movements : the UFW experience, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, March 12, 1985 -- 27. A life of sacrifice for farm workers / Dolores Huerta -- 28. Bush's "cowboy mentality" : interview with Dolores Huerta -- 29. Interview with Dolores Huerta, community leader and activist -- 30. An interview with Dolores Huerta / Frances Ortega -- 31. Dolores Huerta : the vision and voice of her life's work / Julia Bencomo Lobaco -- 32. Dolores Huerta on Fr. Luis Olivares : interview with Mario T. García, April 5, 2005 -- 33. "Our fight is your fight" : civil rights leaders Dolores Huerta & Julian Bond speak out loud and clear for GLBT equality -- 34. Respect, Spanish, and unemployment insurance -- 35. Dolores Huerta on spirituality : interview with Mario T. García, June 1, 2007 -- Bibliography.

ISBN:

0826345131 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780826345134 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)231724520

LCCN:

2008026302

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)