🌎 North America 17h ago · Mariana Duran and Sophie Hurwitz

Dolores Huerta Made Farmworkers Impossible to Ignore

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Communities across the country are grieving the death of Dolores Huerta,  the renowned labor and feminist activist who empowered California’s immigrant workers. Huerta died Wednesday at the age of 96. 



Best known for her work advocating for farmworker rights, Huerta co-founded with Cesar Chávez in 1962 the organization that would eventually become the United Farm Workers, and organized protests and walkouts pushing for laws and labor practices to protect the immigrant communities wh

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