Question

Why did Dolores Huerta become an advocate for social change?

A. Growing up in the Jim Crow South and attending segregated
schools taught her that she needed to speak up to create change.
B. After arriving in the United States as a refugee from the Vietnam
War, she faced systematic discrimination barring her way to
success.
C. She grew up with a physically disabled sister who was excluded
from many public spaces because she could not walk.
D. Her childhood and professional experiences with low-income
farmworkers convinced her that advocacy was necessary.

Answer 1

Option: D. Her childhood and professional experiences with low-income farm workers convinced her that advocacy was necessary.

Step-by-step explanation:

Dolores Huerta is famously known as a labour leader in America. She became an elementary school teacher and saw the poverty of her students, who were children of farmworkers, she got involved in advocacy for agricultural workers and their families. She tried to improve social and economic conditions for workers and to fight discrimination. In 1962 Huerta and with Cesar Chavez co-founded the farmworkers union that would later call as the United Farm Workers.