hispanic heratage
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- The recipient of countless awards from community service, labor, Hispanic, and women's organizations as well as the subject of corridos (ballads) and murals, the vibrant and charismatic Huerta is a much-admired role model for Mexican American women.
- For more than 30 years she has dedicated her life to the struggle for justice, dignity, and a decent standard of living for one of the United States most exploited groups the men, women, and children who toil in the fields and orchards picking the vegetables and fruits that stock grocery stores
- Dolores Huerta
- Born April 10, 1930, in the small mining town of Dawson in northern New Mexico, Dolores Fernandez Huerta was the second child and only daughter of Juan and Alicia (Chavez) Fernandez. On her mother's side of the family, Huerta is a third-generation New Mexican. Huerta's father was also born in Dawson but to a Mexican immigrant family. when Huerta was a toddler, her parents divorced. Her mother moved her three children first to Las Vegas, New Mexico, and then to Stockton, California, where Huerta spent the remainder of her childhood.
- Dolores Huerta (born 1930) is a labor activist who worked with the late Cesar Chavez to organize and run the United Farm Workers.
- Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in Humacao, Puerto Rico, in 1931, Moreno was raised in a New York City tenement by her divorced mother, a seamstress, and despite not having much money the child was able to take dance lessons with Paco Cansino, uncle of Rita Hayworth, who soon had her performing in the children's theater at Macy's department store, and at weddings and bar mitzvahs. Initially using the name Rosita Moreno, she first worked on Broadway at age 13 in a musical called Skydrift and continued on from there, performing on stage and in nightclubs in Boston, Las Vegas, and New York.
- She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, the first Hispanic actress to do so but, more significantly, the film brought this uniquely dynamic, fiery, and talented performer wide recognition in America and abroad, and led to a greater awareness of the talent that existed in the Hispanic community.
- Rita Moreno
- Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in Humacao, Puerto Rico, in 1931, Moreno was raised in a New York City tenement by her divorced mother, a seamstress, and despite not having much money the child was able to take dance lessons with Paco Cansino, uncle of Rita Hayworth, who soon had her performing in the children's theater at Macy's department store, and at weddings and bar mitzvahs. Initially using the name Rosita Moreno, she first worked on Broadway at age 13 in a musical called Skydrift and continued on from there, performing on stage and in nightclubs in Boston, Las Vegas, and New York.
- Celia Cruz, singer, is believed to have been born on October 21, 1924. She died on July 16, 2003, aged 78.
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