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Dolores Huerta, pioneering labor leader and civil rights icon, dies at 96

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Dolores Huerta, a pioneering labor organizer and civil rights icon who cofounded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s, died at 96, her family said in a statement Wednesday.

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