“And I was speaking to a group of professionals in Arizona, to see if they could support us. And they said, "Oh, here in Arizona you can't do any of that. In Arizona no se puede — no you can't." And I said, "No, in Arizona sí se puede!" And when I went back to our meeting that we had every night there ... I gave that report to everybody and when I said, "Sí se puede," everybody started shouting, "Sí se puede! Sí se puede!"”
Dolores Huerta Born on April 10, 1930 in Dawson New Mexico, Dolores Clara Fernandez, would work to become an advocate for justice and social change. Huerta founded the Agricultural Workers Association, And later was the co founder of the United Farm Workers, an Organization created in 1962 to organize Labor workers,…show more content… Her mother, Alicia Chavez was involved greatly in her community and encouraged cultural diversity which became a norm in Dolores’ life by living around Mexican, Filipino, African-American, Japanese and Chinese working families. Huerta, was involved in her high school and later became a teacher. Even though she had a passion for teaching, It ended rather quickly due to her objection of teaching children so hungry, and poor, they couldn’t learn, “ I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children” she once said. In 1955 she co founded the CSO which led voter registration drives and worked for economic opportunity for Latinos. She also founded the Agricultural Workers Association. Through a CSO associate, she was introduced to César Chávez, with whom she shared a passion for organizing labor workers. As a woman, Huerta already faced struggles, but as a Latina she persisted through more. Throughout the labor movement that occurred in the late 70s and early 80s Huerta played an important role. Chavez is the name people remember when It comes to the struggles that the farmworkers faced, but Huerta was deeply involved in the
