Dolores Huerta

Biography

Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and feminist activist born on April 10, 1930. She co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which later became the United Farm Workers, and played a key role in the Delano grape strike of 1965, managing boycott campaigns on the east coast. Huerta has since become a prominent advocate for women's rights, founding the Dolores Huerta Foundation in 2002.