The Schoolteacher Who Couldn't Look Away

Before Dolores Huerta became one of the most important labor organizers in American history, she was a schoolteacher in Stockton, California. Every morning, she watched the children of migrant farm workers file into her classroom — some barefoot, many hungry, their small hands already calloused from working the fields alongside their parents. She could teach them reading and arithmetic, but she could not teach away their hunger.…