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This Mother’s Day, we’re celebrating a woman and a visionary leader who has shaped the labor movement in the United States over the past 60 years.
Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. Mother to eleven children, Huerta has built a feminist legacy as the first woman in American history to negotiate a labor contract for farmworkers and as a cofounder, in 1974, of the Coalition of Labor Union Women. Huerta is credited with popularizing the slogan “¡Sí, se puede!” (Yes, we can!).
Huerta’s experience as a labor activist and mother led her to advocate for female political candidates, and she has continued to fight for women’s rights. At age 94, she continues to be, in her own words, “just a person working at what I am supposed to be doing.”
Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s series “A Pilgrimage to Dolores Huerta” paid homage to this unsung figure within male-dominated narratives of American labor history with photos of Huerta, her children, and grandchildren in Bakersville, California.
Read a discussion between Huerta and Frazier in Harper’s Bazaar → mo.ma/3US0XwR
See more in “Monuments of Solidarity,” now open at MoMA → mo.ma/frazier
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All images by LaToya Ruby Frazier © 2023 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery
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