This activist co-founded the United Farm Workers Union with Cesar Chavez.
Ernesto Galarza
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Dolores Huerta
Mother Mary Jones
Dolores Huerta, in 1962. In 1960, Huerta had created the Agricultural Workers Association. She was raised in the farm-worker town of Stockton, California, where her mother owned a restaurant and a hotel in which she often let workers’ families stay for free.