Huerta dolores biography samples

Series Name: Blue Delta Books® Biographies

Growing up, Dolores Huerta saw few people in power who looked like her. But her desire to help farm workers drove her to become a leader. After cofounding a labor union in 1962, Huerta helped improve the lives of countless farm workers. Her message of working together for change continues to inspire people around the world.

Blue Delta Books® Biographies are Hi-Lo Books™ about people who have changed our world in profound ways. This series features a diverse group of people. Some are more well-known than others, but all deserve to be highlighted for the positive impact they have had. Each Blue Delta Book features full-color images on every page and tells the person’s story from childhood throughout their life. Sure to inspire readers, these impactful biographies are each 48 pages and include a glossary of key vocabulary words.

ISBN: 9781638890065
Format: Paperback
Grade Level: 6 to 12, Teen and YA
Approximate Grade-Level Equivalent for Series: 3.0 to 3.9
Lexile Level: HL430L

Key Words/ Themes: Civil Rights, Biographies, Changemakers, Nonfiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books

Dolores Huerta is a Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. Use this digital flip book to organize information about her life. Students use teacher selected resources for research and then use this digital template to organize their information. Created using Google Slides so distributing the template to students is a breeze.

Page 1 - Bio, Early Life, Family, Quote

Page 2 - Timeline

Page 3 - Best Known For, Lasting Impact

Page 4 - Character Traits with Supporting Evidence

Page 5 - Interesting Facts

Page 6 - Research and Sources

Check out the preview for samples of various digital flip book biographies.

*Note this product only contains the flip book for Dolores Huerta.*

If you would like additional biographies, check out the Hispanic Heritage bundle. For the price of four individual biographies, you get a set including 28 biographies!

Written by: Jason Pierce, Angelo State University

César Chávez was born near Yuma, Arizona, in 1927, on the farm his grandparents had settled in the 1880s. Like thousands of others, his family lost their land during the Great Depression, forcing them to join throngs of itinerant laborers crowding California in search of work. Chávez’s childhood as a migrant farmworker would forever shape him as he experienced firsthand the injustices of brutally long hours, back-breaking labor, corrupt labor contractors who deducted high rents from workers’ pay, and extremely low wages. Worse, although the Depression led to the creation of new labor laws, including the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, many of those protections did not apply to farm workers.

War ended the suffering of the Depression, and Chávez joined the U.S. Navy in 1944, at the age of 17. After his discharge, he returned to Delano, California, a community in the San Joaquin Valley famous for its table grapes. There he met and married Helen Fabela in 1948, and together the couple had seven children. In 1952, Chávez met Fred Ross, an organizer for the Community Service Organization (CSO), who was allied with radical Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation. Alinsky, a community organizer and activist, wanted poor people to organize and become politically active to pressure governments to be more attentive to their needs. Alinsky and Ross hoped to convince farmworkers to organize, and Chávez, despite having only an eighth-grade education, became a powerful speaker and leader in the CSO. Although he broke with the organization in 1962, his experiences informed his creation of theUnited Farm Workers (UFW).

Chávez’s decision to create a farmworker’s union change