{"id":1172,"date":"2023-11-09T10:31:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T10:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/?page_id=1172"},"modified":"2024-08-17T00:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T00:17:12","slug":"marcia-brooks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/es\/marcia-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"People: Marcia Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; disabled_on=&#8221;on|off|off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_direction=&#8221;360deg&#8221; background_color_gradient_stops=&#8221;#000000 0%|rgba(10,10,10,0) 65%&#8221; background_color_gradient_overlays_image=&#8221;on&#8221; background_image=&#8221;http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FMC_731_full.jpg&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_center&#8221; background_vertical_offset=&#8221;60%&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; min_height=&#8221;39vh&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-2px|||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;98px|0px|98px|0px|true|true&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;85px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Montserrat|700|||||||&#8221; header_font=&#8221;Montserrat|700|||||||&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; header_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;76px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||-16px|||&#8221; header_font_tablet=&#8221;Montserrat|700|||||||&#8221; header_font_phone=&#8221;Montserrat|700|||||||&#8221; header_font_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Marcia Brooks<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; disabled_on=&#8221;off|on|on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_direction=&#8221;360deg&#8221; background_color_gradient_stops=&#8221;#000000 0%|rgba(10,10,10,0) 65%&#8221; background_color_gradient_overlays_image=&#8221;on&#8221; background_image=&#8221;http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FMC_731_full.jpg&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_center&#8221; background_vertical_offset=&#8221;60%&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; min_height=&#8221;39vh&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-2px|||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;98px|0px|98px|0px|true|true&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;85px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Montserrat|700|||||||&#8221; header_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; header_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;40px&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||-16px|||&#8221; header_font_tablet=&#8221;Roboto Slab|700|||||||&#8221; header_font_phone=&#8221;Montserrat|700|||||||&#8221; header_font_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Marcia Brooks<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_3,2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;12px||0px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; link_option_url=&#8221;https:\/\/cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/FMC\/id\/731&#8243; link_option_url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><span>Marcia Brooks and Vincent Huerta visiting El Malcriado&#8217;s office, Delano, ca. 1966. Photo by Emmon Clarke.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.6em&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marcia Brooks joined the march from Delano to Sacramento in the spring of 1966 and after that started working full-time for the NFWA. 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She had also been taking photographs together with Chris &#8220;Fats&#8221; S\u00e1nchez under the name of Cris S\u00e1nchez, especially of the lettuce strike in Coachella.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_image=&#8221;http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FMC_486_full.jpg&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_center&#8221; background_vertical_offset=&#8221;48%&#8221; min_height=&#8221;75vh&#8221; link_option_url=&#8221;https:\/\/cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/FMC\/id\/486&#8243; link_option_url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;2_3,1_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;auto||auto||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.6em&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Farm Worker Press, the newspaper\u2019s company, also sold books, recordings of the union songs by Teatro Campesino, and art work. Eventually others joined the small El Malcriado newsroom for short or long periods, and it later moved into larger quarters at Forty Acres.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; link_option_url=&#8221;https:\/\/cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/FMC\/id\/486&#8243; link_option_url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><span>Marcia Brooks working at the El Malcriado office, Delano ca. 1966. 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Aenean finibus sapien non neque venenatis rhoncus.\u201d<\/p><p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"1_3,2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" custom_padding=\"12px||0px|||\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font=\"Montserrat|500||on|||||\" text_font_size=\"22px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">one of the founders of the United Farm Workers (UFW)<\/p><p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font_size=\"20px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dolores Huerta is one of the cofounders of the United Farm Workers (UFW). She was born in Dawson, New Mexico, in 1930, and moved with her mother to Stockton, California, when she was three. She started working as an activist in the 1950s, leading voter registration drives and teaching citizenship classes for the Stockton chapter of the Community Service Organization (CSO) where she soon distinguished herself as a motivated organizer and strong mediator. By 1959, Huerta was part of the small paid staff hired by Fred Ross and was sent as a lobbyist for the CSO in Sacramento where she was the only Mexican American woman lobbyist, pushing for issues such as disability insurance for farmworkers and against the abuses of the Bracero Program. After C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez left the position of national director of the CSO in 1962 to establish a new union, Huerta quit her job too to join forces with Ch\u00e1vez and Gilbert Padilla organizing the Farm Workers Association (FWA).<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_text=\"Espa\u00f1ol\" button_alignment=\"right\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" background_image=\"http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bonnie-Chatfield-Gilbert-Padilla-Helen-Chavez-and-Jessica-Govea-working-at-the-Farm-Worker-Service-Center-Delano-ca.-1966.jpg\" background_position=\"top_center\" background_vertical_offset=\"22%\" min_height=\"75vh\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" min_height=\"336.8px\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"1_2,1_2\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"1_2\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font_size=\"20px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When, in 1964, she left Stockton and moved to Delano she was a 32 years old woman, mother of seven children, and in the middle of her second divorce. As historian Frank Bardacke wrote in his book Trampling Out the Vintage, Huerta\u2019s only problem at this point was that \u201cshe didn\u2019t have a wife like Helen,\u201d referring to the fact that Cesar Chavez\u2019s wife, Helen, was the one in charge of the children freeing up Cesar\u2019s time to fully devote himself to the union. But once in Delano, Huerta found some support. Helen Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s sister, Petra, took care of her youngest child, and her older daughter Laurie Head took responsibility for her younger siblings with the support also of other FWA volunteers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0In the following years, she was responsible for some of the most important farmworker movement achievements. In 1966, following the Delano Strike, Huerta negotiated the contract with the Schenley Wine Company. This was a historical accomplishment because, for the first time, agribusiness recognized the farmworkers union. 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