Dolores Huerta with Children at UFW Hall

Huerta saw family and women’s involvement as natural to the movement, having declared: “People are poor so the whole family works together and the whole family strikes together and pickets together . . . We are nonviolent, and the women bring a lot of dignity to our movement.” She stands here at the end of meeting in a human chain singing the folk song "De Colores" with three of her eleven children.

Photograph, late 1960s
© 1976 George Ballis/Take Stock/The Image Works