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Parents, students, teachers and city leaders celebrated on May 17 the newly named Dolores Huerta Elementary School at the corner of 65 Chenery Street.<\/p>\n
In August 2018 the San Francisco Board of Education unanimously approved the school\u2019s change of name from Fairmount Elementary School to Dolores Huerta Elementary School in honor of labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, who worked alongside Cesar Chavez during the Delano grape strike that began in California and affected large cities throughout the country. The purpose of the 1965 boycott was to force grape growers in California to improve the working conditions of their farmworkers, negotiate union contracts and provide better pay.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a change that I\u2019ve been thinking for a long time,\u201d said SF Board of Education Vice President Mark Sanchez. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be happier. I grew up in the \u201870s honoring the strikes. I never ate a grape growing up. I still haven\u2019t eaten grapes because of that. It\u2019s embedded in my mind. I grew up understanding this movement.\u201d During the celebration of the school\u2019s new name, around 300 students chanted Huerta\u2019s phrase, \u201cSi se puede\u201d (often mistakenly attributed to Cesar Chavez), as she stood at the podium.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me it\u2019s a great honor to have the school named after me, especially since I grew up in Stockton about 70 miles from here,\u201d Huerta said, as she stood in front of a freshly painted mural of herself on campus. \u201cWe would come to San Francisco since I was a teenager and having worked on the boycott, having suffered the beating of the police, it\u2019s like a recompense. It\u2019s a very humbling experience. I\u2019m very grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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