Dolores Huerta, labor and civil rights icon, dies at 96 PBS NewsHour - The Latest By: Susan Montoya Bryan · Associated Press 28 October 2026 at 16:36 Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation's fruit and vegetable fields and coined the phrase "Sí, se puede!" that became a widespread rallying cry.
Dolores Huerta, Who Founded United Farm Workers With Cesar Chavez, Dies NYT - Top Stories By: Robert D. McFadden 28 October 2026 at 19:31 She founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. In early 2026, she told The Times that she had been raped by him decades earlier. She was 96. © George Ballis/Take Stock/The Image Works, via PBS DistributionMs. Huerta organizing marchers in Coachella, Calif., in 1969. Ms. Huerta was the vice president of the United Farm Workers for nearly four decades.
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