Tributes Pour In for Dolores Huerta After 96-Year-Old Labor Icon Dies

3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Oct 28

California leaders, labor organizers and national Democrats hailed Dolores Huerta’s legacy hours after the United Farm Workers co-founder died Wednesday at 96.
Huerta helped build the UFW in California’s Central Valley and organize the 1965 Delano grape strike, a boycott that won better pay and conditions for farmworkers.
Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said her “Sí, se puede” rallying cry and decades of organizing shaped labor, immigrant and civil-rights movements nationwide.
Her influence extended beyond union organizing: California marks April 10 as Dolores Huerta Day, schools bear her name, and protégés said she opened political doors for Latinas and women.
That legacy also evolved this year after Huerta said César Chávez had raped her, a disclosure that prompted renewed efforts to center her role in the farmworker movement.