The Reagan Years: 1980s: UFW Protests Pesticides Use
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. Dolores Huerta. August 29, 1988. Pat Greenhouse, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of Alameda Newspaper Group.
This is a photograph of Dolores Huerta, who is a major figure in the American civil rights movement. In 1955, she was a founding member of the Stockton chapter of the Community Service Organization (CSO). It was through her work with the CSO that Dolores met Cesar Chavez. In 1962 Huerta and Chavez formed the National Farm Workers Association ("NFWA"), the predecessor to the UFW.