"Cesar recognized Dolores' talents as an organizer plus her own personal strength and so when he began to organize in the fields by 1962, he recruited Dolores to work with him," Garcia says. Sarah Warren wrote the book " Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers." She adds by email that Huerta “was driven to do more for the children she planned to serve when she found out how their families were being abused.” "As a very young woman, Dolores was a teacher, and saw the children of farmworkers come to school with no shoes and hungry - this motivated her to work for change," Brown says. Although the marriage did not last long, the teaching had a profound impact on Huerta's desire to improve the lives of farmworkers. "I think this early exposure to the harsh working conditions of farmworkers provided a context for Dolores later working to organize these workers to do away with the more exploitative aspects of farm labor," Garcia adds.Īfter graduating from Stockton High, Huerta married, had two children and began teaching elementary school children, many of whom were the impoverished sons and daughters of farmworkers.
Huerta's mother did permit her daughter to work in industrial packing sheds, but the working conditions there weren't much better than in the field. However, her mother forbade this because she did not want her daughter to work in the fields," Garcia says. "When her family moved from New Mexico to Stockton, California, her brothers had to work in the fields, and as a teenager also wanted to join them.
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