A half-century ago this week, Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers voted to join Larry Itliong and Filipino farmworkers’ in commencing the Delano Grape Strike. Their fight for justice would serve as a catalyst for the Latino civil rights movement and mark the beginning of more widespread acknowledgement of Latinas as movement leaders. But Dolores Huerta was not the first to lead Latinos towards justice, she was simply part of the next generation of Latina leaders in a long lineage of freedom fighters committed to empowering our communities.
Similarly, far from the fields of Delano, CA but rooted just as firmly in the heart of the Latino community, we find Dr. Ana Yáñez-Correa, a national social justice leader who has been fighting to reform the criminal justice system in Texas- a state whose tough on crime rhetoric has given it one of the highest incarceration rates in the nation.
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