Images of Dolores Huerta

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Images of Dolores Huerta

Original Post: Valerie Jarrett @vj44 Dolores Huerta, a labor and civil rights leader, co-founded a union for farm workers with Cesar Chavez #womensucceed pic.twitter.com/9QkmjX02hM

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Huerta, Dolores, 1930-

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Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 in California and was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract that was created after the strike. Huerta has received numerous awards including the Eugene V....