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. actually, one of several vice presidents. however, she was probably the most present out there in the media. she was the main communicator to radio, tv, printed media on the goals and the value of the union. she was also contract negotiator, which was something at which she was extremely successful. she was, as well, a picket captain. one of the great strategies of the grapes boycott. the grapes boycott was a concurrent strategy with the strike that was devised around 1965 at a very local level. and grew to become a national and international movement by 1966, 1967. so what happened was that in times when there was not much harvesting activity, basically, grape pickers and farmworkers just went to supermarkets around the nation, asking consumers not to buy grapes that were produced by these companies that did not want

by the time she started the national farmworkers association, she had seven children and another one on the way. she had 11 children in total. she really lived on a very small salary, five dollars a week. and had to maintain all of her children with that salary. she relied a lot on donations of food and clothing from the union. that is what was given to her by the supporters of the union. she had the [indiscernible] >> > she worried because it had the logo of th ufw. whenever she had to do public speaking, she she wore it. this is the sweater, it belonged to dolores huerta herself, and she lent it to the exhibition. > you can learn more about dolores huerta sunday at 6:00 p.m. end 10 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. on american history tv, author louis

by the time she started the national farmworkers association , she had seven children and another one on the way. she had 11 children in total. she really lived on a very small salary, five dollars a week. and had to maintain all of her children with that salary. she relied a lot on donations of food and clothing from the union. her by what was given to the supporters of the union. she had the [indiscernible] whenever she had to do public speaking, she worried. .- she wore it this is the sweater, it belonged to dolores huerta herself, and she lent it to the exhibition. announcer: you can learn more huerta onres sunday at 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on lectures in history, chapman university history professor jennifer keene looks at myths about america's involvement in world war i, including misconceptions the u.s. was not involved in europe prior to entering the war, or that world war i failed to have lasting impacts on american society. this class is about an hour and 20 minutes. jennifer keene: all right, so today we are going to talk about america during the first world war. i called