De La Cruz, Jessie Lopez, 1919-2013 (Personal Name)

Cantarow, E. Moving the mountain, 1980 (a.e.) CIP galley (Jessie Lopez De La Cruz; Chicana farmworker; b. 1919 in Calif.; md. Arnold De La Cruz)

Wikipedia, October 20, 2015 (Jessie Lopez De La Cruz; born Jessie Lopez in 1919 in Anaheim, CA; died September 2, 2013 in Fresno, CA; Chicano American farm worker, the first female recruiter for the UFW, an organizer and participant in UFW strikes, a community organizer, a working mother, and a delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention; she ran the first UFW Hiring Hall, was an adviser to the California Commission on the Status of Women, and the secretary treasurer of National Land for People (an organization that worked to break up land monopolies in the San Joaquin Valley); Lopez-De La Cruz is also known for her work banning the short-handled hoe, her work educating fellow farm workers, her work promoting co-op farming, and her commitment to fighting injustice for the working poor; she married Arnulfo (Arnold) De La Cruz in 1938)