Dolores Huerta, United Farmworkers co-founder and civil rights icon, has died
Dolores Huerta has died. Her family says the United Farmworkers co-founder, civil rights icons and feminist activists in the United States died Wednesday at the age of 96. As a school teacher in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Huerta grew frustrated with students' living conditions and began organizing farm laborers to improve their families' lives. With César Chavez, she co-founded what would become the United Farm Workers union.
This year, Huerta shocked the Latino community and activist circles by revealing he'd sexually abused her in the 1960s, leading to the birth of two children. Huerta said she'd kept it secret because she feared coming forward would compromise her life’s work and unravel the progress made.
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