Dolores Huerta

Patricia Ibarra
Andrews
World History II
22 April 2013




     When attending Dolores Huerta's speech and her telling us about her work and the work she did with Cesar Chavez which was the united farm workers association they had done,was moving because she has really made a change for immigrants and as well as for womens rights. I think it is great how she wants to may a change for those farm workers who earn minimum wage, who work long hours in the fields and with no proper sanitation and health care. Many who work in the fields get sick because of the lack of health care due because they do not have money to pay for medications. Dolores Huerta's foundation, where she mainly focuses this on education, has set this up totally for the people, all the fuunds go to this Dolores Huerta organization and she does not take any of the money for herself. Also when she talked about the times she had gone to jail was very eye opening because it shows how determine this one women is to make a difference in the United states, and also to hear that there was a time where she even had her children in jail with her. I think for her having to go through something like that must have been hard just because I don't think that any mother wishes to have their children in jail with them, and having to suffer something that they had nothing to do with. I think that Dolores Huerta is a great human rights activists that has done so much and having to meet with her was a great privalege because not everyday someone has the opportunity to meet a great activist like Dolores Huerta.