“Happy birthday to feminist, labor organizer and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta! Here she is i
“Happy birthday to feminist, labor organizer and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta! Here she is in her youth with Cesar Chavez.”Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is a labor leader and civil rights activist who was an early member of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers’, immigrants’, and women’s rights, including the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award, the United States Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As a role model to many in the Latino community, Huerta is the subject of many corridos (ballads) and murals.” (Source)Photo source -- source link
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