Dolores Huerta is an advocate for human rights. She fights for immigrants, women, workers, and fellow Latinos, and has left an immense mark on the state we call home, California. She has conducted several works for humanity, but is most known for the creation of the United Farm Workers (UFW), with co-leader Cesar Chavez, and the movement for the rights of farmworkers against the California grape growers in the 1960s and 1970s. Huerta has changed the lives of countless inhabitants of the United States, earning herself the title of hero. In many ways Huerta fits into the template for an archetypal hero. When she was a young child, her parents divorced, leaving her to live with her mother and grandmother. Commonly heroes have some type of family …show more content…
Before her days as a leader of the UFW, she was a teacher and mainly taught children of farm workers. Most of the children didn’t have shoes and barely had enough food to eat. Seeing her students in this condition moved her make a change so, “...she became one of the founders of the Stockton chapter of the Community Services Organization (CSO). The CSO worked to improve social and economic conditions for farm workers and to fight discrimination.” There is a certain standard of obedience that is expected from prominent females, and Huerta breaks this standard. At this period in time, white people expect her to obey the law and not speak up for herself when she is put down due to her ethnicity, gender, etc. She defies this expectation of loyalty by advocating not only for her rights, but the rights of fellow Latinos, women, and farmworkers. Back in the 1960s much of the population had opposing views on Huerta, some fully supported her, some saw her as a threat, and others simply despised