Dolores Huerta at the Diversity in Culture Festival
Meet Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta
Thursday, April 13 - 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Main Stage
Ventura College celebrates labor leader, activist and community organizer, Dolores Huerta who founded the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez. Ventura College will present Ms. Huerta with The Ventura County Community College District resolution honoring her. Huerta is also the president and founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation. A short talk and Q & A will follow. Danza Azteca Xochipilli will close out the Dolores Huerta event with a special performance.
Primary Sources
- United Farm Workers Image ArchiveFrom the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
- A Latinx Resource Guide: Civil Rights Cases and Events in the United StatesResearch guide from the Library of Congress. Includes links to relevant Library of Congress online collections, printed works, and other online resources.
- Farmworker Movement Documentation ProjectFrom the UC San Diego Library, the project seeks to compile and publish primary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993.
- CalisphereSearch digital collections from across California. Search for "Dolores Huerta" to locate images from various California cultural collections.
Lesson Plans
Online Resources
- Dolores Huerta FoundationThe Foundation's mission is to inspire and organize communities to build volunteer organizations empowered to pursue social justice.
- Cesar Chavez FoundationThe Foundation's mission is to carry on Cesar’s life’s work of uplifting the lives of Latinos and working families by inspiring and transforming communities through social enterprises that address essential human, cultural and community needs.
- United Farm WorkersBegun in the early 1960s by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other organizers, the United Farm Workers of America is the nation’s first enduring and largest farm workers’ union.
- Yes, Dolores Can: The 90-Year-Old Activist on Speaking Up, Raising Hell, and Doing the WorkInterview with Dolores Huerta in the lead-up to Glamour's Women of the Year Award.
- Dolores Huerta: How to Lead a MovementPodcast episode from "Why Am I Telling You This? with Bill Clinton"