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

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

Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union in an effort to improve working conditions in the nation’s fruit and vegetable fields and coined the enduring “Sí, se puede!” rallying cry, has died. She was 96. Huerta died of cancer Wednesday at her home in Bakersfield, California, surrounded by family, said Erik Olvera, a […]

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