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A legendary life
Dolores Huerta
Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta
Born April 10, 1930
Labor leader and community organizer who co-founded the organization that became the United Farm Workers.
Her story
A life that changed history
Dolores Huerta left teaching after witnessing the poverty experienced by farmworkers' children and became a labor and civil-rights organizer. With César Chávez, she founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. She organized strikes, boycotts, voter-registration campaigns, and legislative advocacy while promoting nonviolent collective action.
“¡Sí, se puede!”
United Farm Workers campaign in Arizona, 1972, documented by the National Park Service