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".
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Awards & Honors
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
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Eugene V. Debs Award
Radcliffe Medal
