Dolores Huerta’s legacy reminds us that justice is never handed down from those in power—it is built by the people who organize, resist, and refuse to accept that inequality is inevitable.
Dolores Huerta, Who Founded United Farm Workers With Cesar Chavez, Dies
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.
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