And the bad thing about that is that, not so much going barefooted, but that they used to laugh at us. So I went through the awful experience of having to take lunch to school every other day, sometimes not even every other day. Roberto Acuna And the thing here is that she would go out there and, and try and scratch a living even though she was pregnant and she couldn't go out to, to get any type of medical attention because she knew darn well that there wasn't enough money to keep us eating, you know. Studs Terkel This was what state in, where? Roberto Acuna Fields, because she had no money to go to the hospital. I thought perhaps in, before you talk about your life, this friend of yours, someone you know, Roberto Acuna, and I asked him once about working his job and he remembered his childhood, and this is what he remembered. Studs Terkel Well, we'll come of course to the women who were the farmworkers and their role, yours specifically, as well as your life.

She was a person who was, I guess, quite active and she sort of became a, a myth and a symbol of the, of the women in And 'Adelita' was the story of a schoolteacher who joined the revolution and I guess it was sort of dedicated to her. The meaning of this song to you.ĭolores Huerta Well, it's-the song is, was about the women in the Mexican Revolution.

Studs Terkel As you hear 'Adelita', Dolores Huerta, thoughts come to your mind.

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