“If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”
– Dolores Huerta
– Dolores Huerta
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Copyright Beth Parker Art 2013
Hey! I’m in Bethville…. so where are my shoes?
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Needs no explanation, if you know my art. **giggle**
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Yesterday was the hubby’s
birthday. We had a very romantic day of knocking dirt dobber nests off
the stucco and scrubbing the red dirt stains away. It took us 5 hours,
but it made the hubby very, very happy. Pork ribs and sweet potatoes
for dinner didn’t hurt either. He was celebrating the 27th anniversary
of his 38th birthday. 
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About Dolores Huerta
American
labor leader Dolores Huerta cofounded the United Farm Workers and
played a major role in the American civil-rights movement. She was born
in a mining town in New Mexico in 1930 and raised in California’s
Central Valley, where she saw the plight of farmworkers up close. She
abandoned teaching for activism after witnessing her students’ poverty.
Her best-known campaign was the successful grape boycott of the 1960′s.
She currently serves as president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, an
organization aimed at promoting social justice in agricultural regions
of California.
Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family. He was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston, brother of John Mercer Langston, who was the first Black American to be elected to public office, in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didn’t think he would be able to make a living at writing, and encouraged him to pursue a more practical career. He paid his son’s tuition to Columbia University on the grounds he study engineering. After a short time, Langston dropped out of the program with a B+ average; all the while he continued writing poetry. His first published poem was also one of his most famous, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, and it appeared in Brownie’s Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. 
