PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Cesar Chavez
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Betty Friedan
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Rodolfo Gonzales
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Maggie Kuhn
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Detailed explanation-1: -Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century and a leader of the Chicano civil rights movement.
Detailed explanation-2: -From 1966 to 1970, the UFWOC carried out a successful international consumer boycott on grapes by picketing outside of grocery stores across the U.S. and Canada and spreading awareness about the movement in Europe.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many who have heard of César Chavez do not know the name of Dolores Huerta, the co-founder of the United Farm Workers, who led the grape boycott while raising eleven children. Born in a small New Mexico mining town, Huerta grew up in Stockton in California’s San Joaquín Valley.
Detailed explanation-4: -W hat did workers gain as a result of the strike and boycott? (Pragmatically, they won cold drinking water in the fields, rest periods, grievance procedures, pesticide controls, a hiring hall, a wage increase and the right to be represented by a union.