Dolores huerta biography timeline template
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Dolores Huerta is born
- Dolores Huerta was born on April 10, in Dawson, New Mexico.
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Childhood
Dolores grew up in Stockton, California with her mother, grandfather, and two brothers. Because of her ethnicity, Dolores faced racism growing up, including being accused of stealing by a teacher as well as witnessing violence against one her brothers. - Period: to
Early Career
Huerta graduated with an associate teaching degree from Pacific's Delta Community College in the early s. As an elementary school teacher, Huerta taught a lot of children of farm workers and saw the poverty and hunger that they experienced. Because of this, Huerta resigned from teaching in order to do something that she felt would be more impactful. - In , Huerta helped to create the Stockton Chapter of the Community Service Organization, an organization which fought for economic improvements for Hispanics.
- In , Huerta created the Agricultural Workers
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Dolores Huerta is a Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. Use this digital flip book to organize information about her life. Students use teacher selected resources for research and then use this digital template to organize their information. Created using Google Slides so distributing the template to students is a breeze.
Page 1 - Bio, Early Life, Family, Quote
Page 2 - Timeline
Page 3 - Best Known For, Lasting Impact
Page 4 - Character Traits with Supporting Evidence
Page 5 - Interesting Facts
Page 6 - Research and Sources
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Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century and a leader of the Chicano civil rights movement.
Born on April 10, in Dawson, New Mexico, Huerta was the second of three children of Alicia and Juan Fernandez, a farm worker and miner who became a state legislator in Her parents divorced when Huerta was three years old, and her mother moved to Stockton, California with her children. Huerta’s grandfather helped raise Huerta and her two brothers while her mother juggled jobs as a waitress and cannery worker until she could buy a small hotel and restaurant. Alicia’s community activism and compassionate treatment of workers greatly influenced her daughter.
Discrimination also helped shape Huerta. A schoolteacher, prejudiced against Hispanics, accused Huerta of cheating because her papers were too well-written. In at the end of World War II, white dock brutally beat her brother for w