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- Creator:
- Mullikin, M. Christie
- Description:
- Only recently have women had the opportunity to hold positions of leadership in unions. In fact, by 1993 there were only three women presidents of national unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). One of the first women involved in union leadership was Delores Huerta who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) union with Cesar Chavez. This paper will present a brief study of the challenges women have faced in achieving leadership in unions and an overview of the contributions of Dolores Huerta to the UFW.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Madrigal, Vanessa
- Description:
- This research seeks to understand how the National Farm Worker Association and the newspaper, El Malcriado: Voice of the Farm Worker engaged farmworker and activist identity during the Delano grape strike, and ensuing nation-wide boycott. It analyzes rhetoric and imagery as grassroots mobilization tactics and contextualizes these within the political climate of the time, and also places the activists inside of a broader Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. The analysis considers race, gender, class, and culture.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History