Dolores Huerta

A migrant farmworker is...

• a person who lives on a farm.

• a worker who moves around to find work farming different crops.

• someone who owns their own farm.

What is a union? (More than one right answer!)

• Workers of any kind

• Workers that throw lots of parties.

• Workers who get together to protect their rights.

• Workers that believe they should be safe and paid fairly for their work.

True or False?

Dolores Huerta was a teacher before she became an activist.

• True

• False

What is an activist?

• A person who exercises a lot.

• A person who fights peacefully for something they believe in.

• A person who fights.

True or False?

Dolores Huerta probably didn't get as much fame or attention as Cesar Chavez, because she was a woman.

• True

• False

The name of the organization she helped start was...

• Sunnyside School

• Migrant Farmworkers

• YMCA

• United Farmworkers of America

True or False?

A strike is when workers stop working because they believe something is unfair or unsafe about their job.

• True

• False

What is a boycott? (More than one right answer!)

• The opposite of a girlcott

• When people stop buying something (like grapes), so that a company changes how it works or treats its workers.

• When people stop riding the bus, until the bus company allows anybody of any race to sit wherever they want on the bus.

• A kind of apricot