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Dolores Huerta with her eleven children, 1986
Huerta's commitment to social justice was accompanied by her challenge to conventional models of womanhood. In addition to being a pioneering labor leader, she reared eleven children from three different partners. Celeste and Lori were born from Huerta's brief marriage to her high school sweetheart, Ralph Head. A few years later, in the 1950s, she married fellow farm-labor activist Ventura Huerta. They had five children: Fidel, Emilio, Vincent, Alicia, and Angela. They divorced because Ventura thought Dolores spent too much time at the Community Service Organization in Stockton and not enough on domestic chores. Huerta had four more children from her relationship with Richard Chávez, César's brother, which lasted four decades. When Huerta cofounded the NFWA with César Chávez, she had seven children and relied on a salary of five dollars a week and donations of food and clothing.
Victor Alemán (born 1946) |