Dolores
Americannoun
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US labor leader and civil rights campaigner Dolores Huerta, whose union work with Cesar Chavez changed the lives of migrant workers, has died, her family said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Dolores Huerta says, “I know it was very painful for them, and it still pains me to think about it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
"People are reaching out because they want to do something," she told AFP during a July 2025 interview at the headquarters of her Dolores Huerta Foundation in Bakersfield, an agricultural nexus in California's Central Valley.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
The co-founder of the United Farm Workers — along with Dolores Huerta, an adviser on this exhibition — was a U.S. citizen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Dolores was sitting, it seemed, in the same place as the night before.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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