Dolores Huerta Dies at 96, Leaving Farmworker and Civil Rights Legacy
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Updated · The Seattle Times · Oct 31
Dolores Huerta Dies at 96, Leaving Farmworker and Civil Rights Legacy
3 articles · Updated · The Seattle Times · Oct 31
Summary
Dolores Huerta, the 96-year-old co-founder of the United Farm Workers, died Wednesday of cancer at her home in Bakersfield, California.
Huerta helped improve conditions for U.S. migrant farmworkers and pressed presidents to act on women’s equality and immigrant rights, becoming identified with the rallying cry “Sí, se puede!”
The Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree remained active well into her 90s, joining protests and urging activists to speak out on race, poverty, LGBTQ+ rights and women’s rights.
Her death follows a year in which she disclosed that César Chavez sexually abused her in the 1960s, a revelation that added a painful chapter to the history of the movement she helped build.