Dolores Huerta
Organization founder
1930 –
Who is Dolores Huerta?
Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is a labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with César Chávez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers', immigrants', and womens' 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 Latin community, Huerta is the subject of many corridos and murals.
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- Born
- Apr 10, 1930
Dawson - Also known as
- Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta
- Parents
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of the Pacific
- San Joaquin Delta College
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on July 23, 2013
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