Existing comment:
Dolores Huerta's vest
Subsisting and feeding a large family on the meager salary of a union organizer, Huerta often dressed herself and her children in donated clothes. This hand-knit sweater emblazoned with the black eagle of the UFW was given to her by a sympathizer of the movement. As seen in a nearby photograph, she often wore it to public engagements as an easily readable symbol of her cause. |