Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta

(1930) activist United States

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Dolores Huerta (born 1930) was a United States activist.

About Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta joined Filipino leader Larry Itliong in the Delano grape strike in 1965, managing boycott campaigns on the east coast and negotiating with the grape companies to end the strike. Some credit her with inventing the UFW slogan "sí se puede".

Notable works:

We the Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States

Awards:

Presidential Medal of Freedom|National Women's Hall of Fame|Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights|California Hall of Fame|Labor Hall of Honor|Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Want|Humanitarian of the Year|Ohtli Award|Eugene V. Debs Award|Radcliffe Medal

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