Dolores Huerta at California Demonstrations

One shared aspect of the African American civil rights movement and the farm workers’ movement was the emphasis on the body as a tool for social change. Marches, pickets, boycotts, and sit-ins were all physical activities that could be performed by destitute individuals to call attention to social injustice and demand their rights. As a picket captain, Huerta led many of these efforts.

Photograph c. 1970
Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI