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Dolores Huerta, longtime labor activist, dies at age 96

Dolores Huerta, the labor activist and civil rights leader who co-founded with Cesar Chavez the group that later became the United Farm Workers, has died, her family said in a statement posted to social media. She was 96. Huerta's family said in a statement through her foundation that she died Wednesday at home.
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