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Dolores Huerta Stands Strong: The Woman Who Demanded Justice
Contributor(s): Brill, Marlene Targ (Author)
ISBN: 0821423290     ISBN-13: 9780821423295
Publisher: Ohio University Press
OUR PRICE:   $32.62  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Social Activists
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Women
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2018019627
Series: Biographies for Young Readers
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.79 lbs) 104 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Latino
- Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
- Ethnic Orientation - Chicano
 
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Selected as a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year for 2018 (Category: Twelve-Fourteen)
"A biography for the times ... An excellent read for anyone hoping to believe one person can make a difference." --Kirkus (starred review)
"This well-told, age-appropriate account of a vital and essential activist deserves a place in all middle grade collections." --School Library Journal (starred review)

Today, we know Dolores Huerta as the cofounder, with Cesar Chavez, of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America. We know her as a tireless advocate for the rights of farmworkers, Mexican American immigrants, women, and LGBTQ populations. And we know her as the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama in 2012.

Before all that, though, Huerta was a child in the farming community of Stockton, California, and then a teenager whose teachers underestimated her because she was Chicana. When she became a teacher herself, she witnessed her students coming to school shoeless and hungry. Many took days off from school to work in the farm fields to help feed their families. What could she do to help them? A young mother at the time, Huerta quit her teaching job to organize their parents. That began her journey to educate a nation about who produces our food and the conditions under which they work.

Dolores Huerta Stands Strong follows Huerta's life from the mining communities of the Southwest where her father toiled, to the vineyards and fields of California, and across the country to the present day. As she worked for fair treatment for others, Dolores earned the nation's highest honors. More important, she found her voice.