Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who was an early member of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers', immigrants', and women's rights, including the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award, the United States Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As a role model to many in the Latino community, Huerta is the subject of many corridos (ballads) and murals.
Cesar Chavez. What you should know about the civil rights leader. Cesar Chavez. What you should know about the civil rights leader ... The United Farm Workers movement (UFW) was co-founded by Chávez and labor leader Dolores Huerta.
¡Sí se puede! Dolores Huerta, the iconic Chicana labor leader, civil rights activist and working mother who scarcely needs an introduction, turns 95 on April 10, a day the state of California recognizes as Dolores Huerta Day ....
DENVER (KDVR) — Monday, March 31 is Cesar Chavez's birthday and Cesar Chavez Day, which will be marked in Denver with closed offices in honor of his life ... FOX31 Weather ... He was also a sailor with the U.S ... agriculture industry alongside Dolores Huerta ... .
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Born in 1927, Chávez worked with other labor activists and co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) with Dolores Huerta, dedicating his life to improving the lives of migrant farmworkers through nonviolent means such as strikes, boycotts and marches.
One of the final few people who slipped in before the venue reached capacity was Dolores Huerta, the legendary labor organizer, now 94, known for her hand in the groundswell of Chicano activism that ...
The mayor opened the 28th annual event memorializing her parents — Naomi and Theron Goynes — who died in the last year ... New developments ... Next month, the city will celebrate the opening of the Dolores Huerta Resources Center ... .
(MENAFN - EIN Presswire) SDLFF 2025 Mil Gracias Premio Corazo–n Winners Announced & Dolores Huerta Biopic If you tell the story of your village, you will tell the story of the world.– - Gregory... .
April 3, 2000. CHICAGO — The AFL-CIO women’s conference here drew 4,000 women ...Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers union spoke on the continuing fight of farm workers to organize and defend their rights ... April 4, 1975 ... U.S ... ....