Child-Care Center for Strikers
Child-Care Center for Strikers
A group of young children, boys and girls pose together at Filipino Hall. Delano, ca. 1966. Photo by Emmon Clarke.
On April 24, a nursery school for children in the strike started at Dolores Huerta’s house in Delano, advertised El Malcriado. The school accepted children from two to five years old, and the hours were from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. The nursery school was established for children to learn to share with other children. They joined in art classes, listened to music, heard stories, played with blocks, toys and puzzles, and built things. Lunch was also given to the children. Any mothers who left their children at the nursery could go to the picket line, work in the office, work in the kitchen, or work with the children in the nursery school.
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