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Dolores Huerta

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Object Details

Artist

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, born 16 Feb 1952

Sitter

Dolores Huerta, born 10 Apr 1930

Exhibition Label

Born Dawson, New Mexico
Dolores Huerta, a tireless activist and founder of two national labor unions, organized poor farmworkers in California’s Central Valley. As a young teacher, the poverty of her students left her longing to do more for their farmworker families. In 1955, Huerta joined the Community Service Organization (CSO), which strove to improve the lives of impoverished Latinos. There, she met labor organizer César Chávez, and the two went on to found the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in 1962. A mainly Mexican American union, the NFWA joined with the Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in the Delano Grape Strike of 1965 to protest sub-minimum wages, child labor, and brutal working conditions. After the two unions merged to form the United Farm Workers (UFW), Huerta served as its vice president, spokesperson, contract negotiator, and lobbyist. She was instru- mental in the passing of the landmark California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 and remains active today. This photograph is part of Timothy Greenfield- Sanders’s series The Latino List, which explores what it means to be Latino in the twenty-first century.
Nacida en Dawson, Nuevo México
Dolores Huerta, incansable activista y fundadora de dos sindicatos laborales nacionales, organizó a los trabajadores agrícolas del Valle Central de California. Siendo maestra, vio la pobreza de sus alumnos y quiso hacer más por sus familias. En 1955 se unió a la Organización de Servicio a la Comunidad (CSO), que luchaba por mejorar la vida de los latinos sin recursos. Allí conoció al organizador laboral César Chávez y ambos fundaron la Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores Campesinos (NFWA) en 1962. La NFWA, mayormente mexicoamericana, se unió en 1965 al Comité Organizador de Trabajadores Agrícolas Filipinos en la llamada huelga de la uva de Delano para protestar por los sueldos bajo el mínimo legal, el trabajo infantil y las brutales condiciones laborales. Tras consolidarse ambos grupos en la Unión de Trabajadores Campesinos (UFW), Huerta fungió como vicepresidenta, portavoz, negociadora de contratos y cabildera. Fue crucial en la apro- bación de la Ley de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas de California en 1975, y sigue activa hoy. Esta fotografía forma parte de la serie La lista de latinos, donde Timothy Greenfield-Sanders explora lo que significa ser latino en el siglo XXI.

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Catherine and Ingrid Pino Duran

Date

2012

Object number

NPG.2019.106

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Copyright

© 2012 Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Type

Photograph

Medium

Inkjet print

Dimensions

Image: 84.8 × 68.5 cm (33 3/8 × 26 15/16")
Sheet: 101.4 × 75.6 cm (39 15/16 × 29 3/4")
Mat: 122 × 96.5 cm (48 1/16 × 38")

Place

United States\New York\Kings\New York

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Location

Currently not on view

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Costume\Jewelry\Necklace
Costume\Jewelry\Earring
Interior
Dolores Huerta: Female
Dolores Huerta: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Labor leader
Dolores Huerta: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist
Dolores Huerta: Civilian awards\Presidential Medal of Freedom
Dolores Huerta: Social Welfare and Reform\Civic leader
Portrait

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm44b627f78-0804-4beb-8c20-c490693dbd7c

Record ID

npg_NPG.2019.106

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