Maria Moreno

Project Details:

Title: Maria Moreno
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.
Year Printed: 2018
Color: 3+ Colors
Date Added: February 7, 2021
Causes: Economic Justice, Gender Equity, Social Justice
Partners: Women of the Resistance
Keywords: Activist, Fair Pay, Farm Workers, Indigenous, indigenous rights, Labor, Living Wage, Maria Moreno, Union, Union Worker, Women Of The Resistance
Project Type: Poster