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Dolores Huerta

Labor leader and feminist who co-founded the United Farm Workers.

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Dolores Huerta

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She co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which later became the United Farm Workers.[1] The UFW slogan "sí se puede" is sometimes attributed to her invention.[1]

Key facts and history

She co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 with Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla.[2] She was appointed vice president of the United Farm Workers when the AWOC and NFWA merged.[3] In 1988 she was beaten by a police officer at a protest, suffering two fractured ribs and a ruptured spleen.[4][5] Following her parents' divorce when she was five, Huerta's upbringing in Stockton was handled by her mother and grandfather.[6][1]

Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta. Image: Eric Guo · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Her mother held two jobs—as a canner and a waitress—which together paid $5 each week.[1] During the late 1950s, she established new CSO branches and acted as a lobbyist, pushing for health coverage for farmworkers before the California State Legislature.[7] In 1965, Huerta participated in the Delano grape strike alongside Larry Itliong, overseeing boycott campaigns on the East Coast.[1]

What the research sources say

According to a 2019 interview, Huerta came to Colorado in 2014 to fight against Amendment 67, which would have made women subject to criminal investigation for miscarriage.[8] The Dolores Huerta Foundation endorsed California Proposition 3 in 2024, which removed language defining marriage as between a man and a woman.[9] Huerta said she holds no ill feelings toward actress Rosario Dawson over Dawson's open letter criticizing Huerta for supporting Hillary Clinton.[10] Huerta stated she thinks Clinton will be more productive in protecting Latinos as president.[10]

The Dolores Huerta Foundation is a 501(c)(3) entity whose headquarters are located in Bakersfield, California.[11][12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Dolores Huerta" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sowards 2019, p. 7 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Dolores Huerta" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rose 2008, p. 8; Fernandez, "Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years", The New York Times, March 18, 2026 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Dolores Huerta" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Garcia 2016, p. 3-4; Garcia 2012, p. 27; Rose 2008, p. 8; Beagle 2016, p. 53; Garcia 2012, p. 27 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Dolores Huerta" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rose 2008, p. 8 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Dolores Huerta" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Morain, "Police Batons Blamed as UFW Official Is Badly Hurt During Bush S.F. Protest", Los Angeles Times, September 16, 1988; Rose 2008, p. 8; "$825,000 Proposed for Union Activist Injured by Police", Los Angeles Times, January 25, 1991 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Dolores Huerta" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Garcia 2012, p. 27 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Dolores Huerta" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sowards 2019, p. 7; Beagle 2016, p. 53; Sowards 2019, p. 7 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Klein, "Living Legend Dolores Huerta Looks Forward by Reflecting on the Past", 5280, December 9, 2019. facts only, no text reused. 5280.com
  9. Hernández, "California Proposition 3: Protecting gay marriage", LAist, October 9, 2024. facts only, no text reused. laist.com
  10. Contreras, "Huerta: No Ill Feelings with Rosario Dawson Over Sanders", KQED, April 5, 2016. facts only, no text reused. kqed.org
  11. Suozzo, "Dolores C Huerta Foundation", ProPublica, May 9, 2013. facts only, no text reused. projects.propublica.org
  12. Wikipedia, "Dolores Huerta" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Suozzo, "Dolores C Huerta Foundation", ProPublica, May 9, 2013; Beagle 2016, p. 53; Denyer, "'An honor to work with her': Dolores Huerta celebrates 93rd birthday, 20 years of foundation", KCRA, April 12, 2023 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Dolores Huerta (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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