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Dolores Huerta with her eleven children, 1986

Artist
Victor Alemán, born 1946
Sitter
Dolores Huerta, born 10 Apr 1930
Date
c. 1986
Type
Photograph
Medium
Framed photograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 20.3 × 25.4cm (8 × 10")
Frame: 31.1 × 36.2cm (12 1/4 × 14 1/4")
Topic
Exterior
Dolores Huerta: Female
Dolores Huerta: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Labor leader
Dolores Huerta: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Activist\Civil rights activist
Dolores Huerta: Presidential Medal of Freedom
Dolores Huerta: Society and Social Change\Civic leader
Portrait
Credit Line
Owner: Lori de León

This record is part of the Catalog of American Portraits, a research archive of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to reproduce images (if available) must be obtained from the portrait owner. Please note that if an owner is listed above, this information may not be current.

Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Object number
EXH.DH.26
Exhibition Label
Huerta’s commitment to social justice was accompanied by her challenge to conventional models of womanhood. In addition to being a pioneering labor leader, she reared eleven children from three different partners. Celeste and Lori were born from Huerta’s brief marriage to her high school sweetheart, Ralph Head. A few years later, in the 1950s, she married fellow farm-labor activist Ventura Huerta. They had five children: Fidel, Emilio, Vincent, Alicia, and Angela. They divorced because Ventura thought Dolores spent too much time at the Community Service Organization in Stockton and not enough on domestic chores. Huerta had four more children from her relationship with Richard Chávez, César’s brother, which lasted four decades. When Huerta cofounded the NFWA with César Chávez, she had seven children and relied on a salary of five dollars a week and donations of food and clothing.
Dolores Huerta con sus once hijos, 1986
El compromiso de Huerta con la lucha por la justicia social iba a la par con su desafío de los modelos femeninos convencionales. No solo fue pionera como líder laboral, sino que crio once hijos de tres parejas diferentes. Celeste y Lori nacieron de su breve matrimonio con su novio de escuela secundaria, Ralph Head. Años después, en la década de 1950, se casó con su compañero de activismo Ventura Huerta. Tuvieron cinco hijos: Fidel, Emilio, Vincent, Alicia y Ángela. Se divorciaron porque Ventura pensaba que ella dedicaba demasiado tiempo a la Organización de Servicio a la Comunidad de Stockton y no el suficiente a las tareas hogareñas. Huerta tuvo cuatro hijos más en su relación de cuatro décadas con Richard Chávez, hermano de César Chávez. Cuando cofundó la Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores Campesinos con este último, tenía ya siete hijos y vivía con un salario de cinco dólares a la semana, además de donaciones de alimentos y ropa que recibía.
Víctor Alemán (nacido en 1946)
Fotos de familia de Lori Huerta de León
Data Source
Catalog of American Portraits
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