Event marking the establishment of the Cesar Chavez National Monument at Nuestra Senora Reina de la Paz, Keene, California: [President Barack Obama joined by Secretary Ken Salazar, National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis, United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta, United Farm W
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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....