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Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez and lesser known Gilbert Padilla, is a co-founder of the United Farmworkers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). [2]
The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated from the merger of two workers' rights organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong.
Dolores Huerta, one of the most influential labor activists in the 20th century, attests that music was a crucial spark in America's largest farmworker movement. “So much of the music from that ...
Huerta co-founded what’s now known as the United Farmworkers Association with Cesar Chavez and coined the phrase, ¡Si se puede! Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta throws her endorsement into a ...
A celebration is planned to honor pioneers in the fight for farm worker rights. ... will have a birthday celebration for César Chávez and Dolores Huerta at 11 a.m. April 6 at 1409 Ellis Ave ...
Dolores centers on Dolores Huerta's committed work to organize California farmworkers as the co-founder of the UFW (United Farm Workers), in alliance with the Chicano Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, gay liberation and US-based LGBTQ social movements, and the late 20th century women's rights movement.
Dolores Huerta Standing in front of Harvey Wilson Richards’s Photograph of Grape Pickers, Farm Workers, Community Members, and Supporters on their 340-Mile Peregrinación (Pilgrimage) from ...
Gilbert Padilla (born December 1927) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NWFA), which later became the United Farm Workers of America (UFW). [1]