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Apr 10, 2024 · Updated on: April 11, 2024 / 1:14 PM PDT / CBS Sacramento. STOCKTON — She's considered one of the most respected and influential labor leaders of our time. Dolores Huerta broke more than a...
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- Irene Gonzalez
Oct 1, 2021 · Celebrated labor organizer, UFW founder Dolores Huerta continues fight at 91. At 91 years old, renowned labor and Civil Rights activist Dolores Huerta continues to inspire. In a virtual conversation hosted by the JFK Jr. Forum’s Institute of Politics Tuesday evening, Huerta urged students to use their own voices and life stories to become ...
- Huerta’s Mother Set Her on Her Activist Path
- Organizing on The Labor Movement’S Front Lines
- Politics and Police encounters
- Recognition For Her Efforts
Huerta, who has called herself a “born-again feminist,” credits her mother for sparking her unflinching desire for justice. After a divorce, independent-minded Alicia Chavez Fernandez left northern New Mexico and moved three-year-old Dolores and her two brothers during the Great Depression. They landed in Stockton, in California’s Central Valley fa...
After working in two other labor organizations that disagreed on strategy or that ultimately didn’t consider farmworkers a priority, Huerta and Chavez started what would become the United Farm Workers in 1962. Through the UFW, they fought for better wages, unemployment compensation, rest periods and things as basic as cold drinking water and toilet...
She also involved herself in politics—another important way, in her view, to make change. Huerta and the UFW canvassed in Los Angeles to back the presidential bid of Robert F. Kennedy. The former attorney general had come to Delano to support the grape strike and had admonished local police for their treatment of picketing farm workers. Huerta stoo...
Huerta has been awarded more than a dozen honorary doctorate degrees. At least eight schools in four states bear her name. She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her work on labor rights, voting rights, women’s rights and other causes. Musicians have composed corridos,a traditional Mexican song, to tell her story. When President Obam...
- Iván Román
Apr 10, 2024 · Dolores Huerta, a tireless advocate for social justice, celebrated her 94th birthday Wednesday. In honor of her legacy, the acting Governor Eleni Kounalakis issued a proclamation declaring...
Oct 13, 2023 · Oct. 13, 2023, 7:00 AM PDT. By Arturo Conde. Activists will tell you that music has the power to change things. Dolores Huerta, one of the most influential labor activists in the 20th century,...
- Arturo Conde
Sep 17, 2017 · At 87, Dolores Huerta is a living civil rights icon. She has spent most of her life as a political activist, fighting for better working conditions for farmworkers and the rights of the...
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Oct 7, 2020 · Fifty years after a historic victory for farm workers in California, the civil rights leader feels optimistic about the new generation of activists. Oct. 7, 2020. Dolores Huerta on stage at a...
