Dolores Huerta, labor activist and civil rights icon, dies at 96
Dolores Huerta was a labor activist and civil rights leader who co-founded the group that later became the United Farm Workers.
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Dolores Huerta was a labor activist and civil rights leader who co-founded the group that later became the United Farm Workers.
Dolores Huerta, an American labor rights leader and feminist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, died at 96.
Longtime labor activist Dolores Huerta says President Trump's disparaging remarks about Mexicans show he "does not know history," and called on Latinos in California, Texas and other states to push for change.
In her first public interview since the investigation, Dolores Huerta said that at the time of the incidents, she felt alone and trapped.
Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers movement with Cesar Chavez, alleges that Chavez "manipulated and pressured" and later forced her against her will to have sex with him in the 1960s, fathering two children. She spoke out after two other women alleged to The New York Times that they were sexually abused by Chavez in the 1970s when they were 12 and 13 years old.
Allegations of abuse of women and girls by union leader Cesar Chavez were first reported by the New York Times on Wednesday.
During Hispanic Heritage Month, labor activist Dolores Huerta reflects on her fight for farm workers' rights alongside Cesar Chavez in the 1960s and her ongoing work to help others.
She's considered one of the most respected and influential labor leaders of our time. Dolores Huerta broke more than a glass ceiling; she led a revolution in the farm fields of California's Central Valley.
At 84, the woman President Obama stole his campaign slogan from — albeit in a different language — is still a giant in the fight against inequality