Dolores Huerta

Born

April 10, 1930 (age 96)

Known as

trade unionist, activist, social activist, civil rights advocate

Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta joined Filipino leader Larry Itliong in the Delano grape strike in 1965, managing boycott campaigns on the east coast and negotiating with the grape companies to end the strike. Some{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Specifically, Huerta claims credit for inventing the slogan. However, researchers John Hammerback and Richard Jensen attribute the phrase to Chavez. Chavez himself credited her with inventing the UFW slogan "sí se puede".

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