Listen to Dolores Huerta, a founder and early leader of the UFW, speak about the unsafe and inhumane working conditions farmworkers experienced. The children pictured here are harvesting strawberries in a field in 1976.

Audio, Museum collection, the WFMT/Studs Terkel Archives, T2616; Photograph by Cathy Murphy, courtesy of the United Farm Workers Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University