Excerpt written by Dolores Huerta in a 1969 proclamation:
We have been farm workers for hundreds of years and strikers for four. It was four years ago that we threw down our plowshares
peace and tranquility to us represent too many lifetimes of unprotesting submission to a degrading social system that allows us ne
have our peace, and to win it without violence, for it is violence we would overcome the subtle spiritual and mental violence of op
human body. So we went and stood tall outside the vineyards where we had stooped for years. But the tailors of national laborles
picket lines were crippled by injunctions and harassed by growers; our strike was broken by imported scabs; our overtures to our
must come when they would talk to us, as equals.
Who did Huerta represent in her proclamation?
Farm workers
Growers
Legislators
Supporters

Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Dolores Huerta with Cesar Chavez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later got merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and became the United Farm Workers (UFW).

Dolores Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for immigrants, workers, and women's rights. Dolores Huerta became president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which she founded in 2002. Also, she currently has about 15 honorary doctorates.

Why did Huerta represented the Farm workers?

In 1950s, Dolores Huerta briefly taught in school, but when she saw that so many hungry farm children are coming to school, she thought that she could do more to help them by organizing farmers and farm workers.

What was the 1969 proclamation?

In 1969, the farm workers and community organizers called for a boycott, asking Americans to stop buying grapes until the growers agreed to recognize the union and improve working conditions of the farm workers.

Dolores Huerta was a leader of the grape boycott and thus she gave this speech in an attempt to rally support.

Hence, option A is correct.

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