Dolores Huerta As A Latinx Leader

What comes to mind when you hear the word leader? Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy? According to Webster's Dictionary, a leader is "one who leads." After participating in the Leadership Program, I have learned that a leader is hard to summarize.

Selena Quintanilla was a leader because she dominated the music world and managed to break barriers. She managed to step out of her comfort zone to make a change. She learned a new language to be able to make her dream. She dominated force and made a history in latino music. She was the first female Tejano singer to ever to succeed so much because of her music. After everything she did she opened the doors to other female latin singers and inspired most to push themselves

She has risen from a poor background and was ranked the richest African American of the 20th Century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history and was once the world’s only black billionaire. She is also known as the most influential woman in the world, both older generations and young.

One of the most influential and inspirational women of all time was Rosa Parks. By one action she helped change the lives of a majority of African Americans and more importantly society as a whole. Rosa Parks sparked the attention of America when she refused to settle for the black (lower class)standards. Not only did she help change the lives for many African Americans but she helped equality for all men and women in the United States. By one brave women our world will be forever thankful.

Dolores Huerta is a Mexican-American woman whose struggles and activist heart led her to help improve the lives of farm workers, immigrants and women. Her father was an inspiration as an activist, while her mother encouraged the development of her education and extra-curricular activities. Although she was a great student, she like many Mexican Americans, experienced racism. Rather than give up on her dreams, her struggles encouraged her to fight an unjust system.

Grito Dolores also known as the “Cry of Dolores” marked the beginning of the Mexican War of Independence. The war was launched by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a renowned Catholic priest. The war was started in response to the three hundred years of turmoil that the Mexicans faced from the Spaniards. Such problems that they faced included racial inequality and the imperialism that the Spaniards forced down the throats of the Mexicans. The “ Cry of Dolores” gave the empowering speech given Miguel Hidalgo, in front of his parish church was used as a tool to help empower the populous community.

Dolores Huerta has made many contributions to our society and the social work profession. While her title is not a social worker, she presents to be one at heart. Huerta is a union leader, civil rights activist, and lobbyist. For many years, she worked closely with Cesar Chavez to organize farmworkers. Huerta’s drive and motivation to correct social injustice is seen in her actions and words. The reason Huerta was selected to be have this paper written on is because the writer attended a speech of hers in May, 2013, and found her to be a big inspiration for anybody who is passionate about social justice. Many people have knowledge of who Cesar Chavez is, but not as many are aware of who his partner, Dolores Huerta, is. This paper is written

There were many problems in society that no one knew of until Eleanor Roosevelt brought them to light. “It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.” Mahatma Gandhi said. Eleanor decided to do what was right and help people instead of going along with what other people thought. Her rough childhood pushed her to help people that were oppressed. Eleanor especially knew what it was like to be ignored.

During the Chicano Movement, there were many different key leaders that helped the movement. These key leaders were Rodolfo ‘‘Corky’’ Gonzales, Reies Tijerina,

During the Mexican Revolution, Mexico as a nation torn in many directions, people gave up simple farming lives to take up arms against causes that many of them did not fully understand. Gender roles during the period in Mexico were exceptionally degrading towards women. Having little more rights than slaves and treated as trophies or property more than human beings, women role in society was nothing near that of a man’s. In The Underdogs, Mariano Anzuela highlights the issue of gender roles by continuously illustrating the punitive role of women and their mistreatment. Augmenting Anzuelas work with citations from Oscar Lewis and Stephanie Smith will paint a picture of the degrading gender roles for women during the Mexican Revolution. Highlighted points brought up by Azuela are how men speak with and treat women, women’s place in society, and general disregard for women’s feelings.

Dolores Huerta has not taken for granted as shown by today and the previous year, her legacy continues as she herself countess helping the Latino community. Creating the United Farm Workers association and helping pass the Agricultural relation acts as being without a doubt one of the most and significant things that Dolores has done to help the immigrant and Latino community

Another thing found interesting was when she talked about Cuba giving their citizens free health care, and education. Why is it so hard for the United States to give free health care and education to the citizens of the U.S.? While Dolores Huerta was speaking I start to think to myself, what can I do to make a change in my community? Because I see a lot of people where I come from that need help. You see people that are on drugs, poverty and ways we can probably change those type of issues are coming together by getting more rehabilitation centers built so we can help the people that are on drugs get clean, also shelters for the poor. I think this is something that the Government should do as well instead of putting tones of money into building new jails. I also found fascinating was when she talked about mass incarceration and how the jailhouse is filled with color people something that we discussed in class. Huerta States that prison is the modern day slavery and I agree with her. Prison is just another way to keep people of color contained that’s why majority of the prisons population are filled with more color people than white people. I just found everything she talked about interesting because a lot stuff she was addressing came hand to hand with what we are learning in class. Huerta just makes you think about what impact you can have on your community and the world if you

Have you ever heard of Rosa Parks or Ruby Bridges?Well these women are extra special.Rosa got arrested from not giving her seat up and Ruby was incredible and didn’t get scared when she was the only black girl in a whole white school and was getting yelled at by angry mobs.

Across cultures and throughout history, women have experienced ongoing systemic oppression; and they have responded with progressive movements of protest and creative alternatives. Harriet Tubman in the fight against slavery: Fannie Lou Hamer for voting rights: Ella Baker and Mary White Ovington in the civil rights movement: Rosa Luxemburg in the German socialist movement: Winnie Mandela in the anti-apartheid movement: Puerto Rican independence leader and poet Lolita Lebron: and American Indian movement activists Anna Mae Aquash, Ingrid Washinawatok, and Winona LaDuke (Mink and Navarro). Women have pioneered in movements for labor rights, prison reform, reproductive rights and health, education, affordable housing, affirmative action and equal rights, human rights, and environmental safety. These women’s leadership styles span a range from soft to harsh, from wielding individual, hierarchical power to possessing a commitment to collectivism, and from identifying as “woman as caretaker of life” to woman as requiring and utilizing equal power to man. There is no one characteristic that applies to all women as social change leaders (Hurtado).

Gloria Steinem grew up to be a widely known and loved leader of the women’s rights movement, however, it took her a long time to get there. Gloria was born on March 25th, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio. Both of her parents, Ruth and Leo Steinem, had a significant impact on Gloria. Her mother gave her the political and social beliefs she held as an adult. Ruth Steinem taught Gloria that all people are equal and that it is important to understand the suffering people go through “because of their race, or class, or religion” or as Gloria learned to add, “their sex”. On the other hand, her father instilled in her a love of life and adventure. Her love on the road stemmed from her father’s irresponsibility that caused the family to move around a lot. Fortunately, this love this allowed Gloria to be present in front of her followers as an