s when they finished the strike. dolores was, since the creation of the national farmworkers association, she had been vice president of the union. when the national farmworkers association merged with the agricultural workers organizing committee, to become the ufw, dolores was still its vice president. one of several vice presidents. she was probably the most present in the media. she was the main communicator to radio and tv, printed media anon the goals and the value of the union. she was a contract negotiator which is something at which she was externally successful. she was a ticket captain. one of the great strategies of the great boycott. the great boycott was a concurrent strategy with the strike that was devised around 1965 at a very local level. it grew to become a national and international movement by 1 966-1967. in times when there was not much harvesting activity, basically, grape pickers and farm workers just went to supermarkets around the nation asking consumers not to buy grapes that companiesced by these that did not want to negotiate contracts with the ufw and telling them about the conditions in which worke

the 1960's, it is even more striking that she was there at the table, conducting that effort of negotiating contracts. she was the first woman to negotiate contracts for the farmworker's union. women had been important leaders -- important union leaders in other economic sectors that had been more traditionally associated to females, such as the garment industry, for example. but it was the first time that a woman was negotiating contracts for farmworkers, when dolores huerta took on that rule. -- that role. here, we see her as well, speaking mainly to a group of women. that was also very -- a very important part of her contribution to the union. female farmworkers were very much part of the union, in the sense that they were most often farmworkers themselves. with her husband. whenever there was a family of farmworkers, it was very common to have the whole family working in the field. and they supported the union. however, few of them didn't like dolores, who simply put that at -- however, few of them did it like dolores, who simply put that at the head of her responsibilities. she provided, essentially, another model of what a woman could be and do, a new model of public