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1) Dolores
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century." --
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." Mother Jones (1837-1930) was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of protest movements in the early twentieth century. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones was always there, stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful. When Mother Jones began her career as a "hell-raiser," as she put it, she...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
The story of Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who was essential in the fight to create child labor laws. Well into her sixties, Mother Jones had finally had enough of children working long hours in dangerous factory jobs, and decided she was going to do something about it. The powerful protests she organized earned her the name "the most dangerous woman in America." And in the Children's Crusade of 1903, she lead one hundred boys and girls on a glorious...
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Dolores Huerta Stands Strong follows Huerta's life from the mining communities of the Southwest where her father toiled, to the vineyards and fields of California, to the present day. As she advocated for farmworkers, Mexican American immigrants, women, and LGBTQ population rights, Dolores earned the nation's highest honors and found her voice." --
12) Clara Lemlich
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Clara Lemlich, part of the She Persisted chapter book series"--
16) Dolores Huerta
Author
Series
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Biography of Dolores Huerta, who, along with Cesar Chavez, established a union to protect the rights of farm workers.