PP&D 177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: International Brotherhood Of Teamsters, Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers
1 Jun 2018
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Week 8: Dolores Huerta Movie Notes
• Democratic socialism vs. republican
• Fbi found her dangerous
• Thought deeply about her peers and police brutality as a teenager
• Luis Valdez: coming of age, conformity, and Dolores did not fit that mold
• Ricardo Chavez (son) back then in the 40s, Dolores grew up in
• Second husband, cultural clashes (nontraditional wife)
• Fred Ross: community organizer, worked w/ Dolores
• Lori De Leon, Juana Chavez (daughter)
• Few Latino men in the CA legislature
• Public assistance = us citizen
• Show the legislature photos of their children in uniform
• Fred introduced Cesar Chavez to Dolores
• USA represents front of independence, yet there is still slavery
• Agriculture = worst paid profession
• Eliseo Medina, SEUN Executive President
• Eloy Martinez, farmer
• Rick Rivas, LGBT activist
• Medina, Martinez, Rivas = all worried about being in contempt for speaking out on farm
workplace
• Emilio Huerta = siblings and he felt like they did not belong to Dolores? *
• 1962: Santa Fe Valley (north and south divided with Huerta and Chavez)
• Credit union, insurance, immigration work, income tax, 5 year plan to have national
strike in the valley
• Filipino discrimination and violence, joined them to protest
• Dolores’s leadership influenced and inspired equal gender participation
o Clerical worker, farm admin
o More women involved in the UFW than any other US labor union
• When on picket line, police officers not hesitant to attack
• 1966: March to Sacramento
• Racism that touches black people touch brown people; all marching for social change
• $5 dollars per week to work with the Union
• 1968: JFK there while sheriff department arrests innocent Chicanos
• Voter outreach was very unique, farmworkers encouraged voting door-to-door
• JFK death, people felt cynical and hopeless; “death of the future”
• Dolores was very close to JFK, saw the death and the impact of violence
• Advocated for non-violence
• Pesticides poisoning issue; resulted in deaths
• Environmental justice = certain hazards impact people of color, not white people
• Workaholic = did not make time for herself, loved music but felt guilty when listening to it
• Her husband Richard helped her make time for herself (Chavez’s brother)
• 11 children, 2 marriages
• Children resented her for being very involved
• Her absence had positives and negatives on her children → dropped out of high school,
spent nights at others’ houses
• Movement became her “child”
• Heir to A&P supported the grape boycott
• Reagan admin bought grapes to send to Vietnam
• United farm workers = insurance, increasing wages, paid vacations, etc.
• Cesar and Dolores best friends, but argue a lot
• 1973: contracts in AZ, TX, CA
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