Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers Co-Founder, Dies at 96
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 28
Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers Co-Founder, Dies at 96
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 28
Summary
Huerta died Wednesday at her home in Bakersfield, California, surrounded by close family, her foundation said.
The 96-year-old organizer spent decades fighting for better conditions for U.S. agricultural workers after shifting from schoolteaching into civil-rights and labor activism.
In 1962, Huerta and Cesar Chavez built the National Farm Workers Association, which merged with another group four years later to form the United Farm Workers union.
Born in New Mexico and raised in California's San Joaquin Valley by a single mother, Huerta became one of the most prominent figures in the farm labor movement.