About This Lesson
OVERVIEW
How can social, economic and political systems change? Using a grass-roots model, Dolores Huerta has spent her life teaching people how to stand up for themselves and make improvements on systems that oppress.
OBJECTIVES
Students will:
- Learn about Dolores Huerta’s role as an organizer, leader and activist
- Learn how to express understanding of her life’s work through art.
ESTIMATED TIME: One or two 50-minute classes
Since my students knew NOTHING about Hispanic Heritage Month, I decided to introduce it to them. Since I am an Agriculture Educator, I chose to include lessons on Farming and workers in/of Hispanic Heritage. Cesar Chavez was my immediate choice and I could not talk about Farm workers (especially migrant farmworkers without including Dolores Huerta) Your resource provided great background information on her as an activist who worked beside Cesar Chavez. As an African American working in a predominately African American school, I felt compelled to share this story of farming in America. So much is omitted in history and this is a very important event in the story of farming in this this country.