I became involved in many of the activities in the community-school board meetings, city council meetings, everything that I could get into. For exam… - Jessie Lopez De La Cruz

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I became involved in many of the activities in the community-school board meetings, city council meetings, everything that I could get into. For example, I began fighting for bilingual education in Parlier, went to a lot of meetings about it and spoke about it.

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About Jessie Lopez De La Cruz

Jessie Lopez De La Cruz (1919 – September 2, 2013) was a Chicana farm worker, the first female recruiter for the UFW, an organizer and participant in UFW strikes, a community organizer, a working mother, and a delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention.

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