One of the Most Important Women in the Farmworker Movement Dies At 93 Associated Press
go to original September 6, 2013

Jessie De La Cruz: Her life's journey from a childhood laboring in the fields, to her work with César Chávez and the United Farm Workers movement. (theFresYES)

FRESNO, Calif. - Jessie Lopez De La Cruz, a longtime leader in the national farmworker movement, has died. She was 93.

The United Farmworkers of America says De La Cruz died in Kingsburg, Calif., on Labor Day. She was one of the union's first female members and organizers in the Fresno area.

De La Cruz organized workers in the fields, participated in grape boycotts and testified on outlawing the short-handled hoe, which required workers to bend over at the waist for the entire day.

She also worked with the UFW in campaigns across the state and with the union Cesar Chavez at his office at La Paz in Keene. She also became a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

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