Inscription: A migrant mother who was driven by her 12 children’s hunger to become an activist in the late 1950s. Because the first female farm worker in America to be hired and then elected as a union organizer by her fellow Mexican-American, Filipino, Black, and Okie farmworkers. Born to an orphan of the Mexican Revolution and Mescalero Apache, Maria was Mexican American, Indigenous and a U.S. Citizen.
