What happened to Dolores Huerta? Children, Facts, Family, Husband



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Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who was a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers’ and civil rights, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Born on April 10, 1930, in Dawson, New Mexico, Huerta was the second child of Juan Fernández and Alicia Chávez. Her father was a miner and farmworker, and her mother was a homemaker. Huerta’s parents divorced when she was three years old, and she was raised by her mother. She has two sisters, Pauline and Alicia.

Huerta attended school in Stockton, California, where she excelled academically and was elected president of her senior class. After graduating from high school in 1947, she enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied economics and sociology. She left Berkeley after one year to marry fellow student Ralph Huerta, with whom she had five children.

In 1955, Huerta began working as a community organizer in Stockton. She soon became involved in the local chapter of the Community Service Organization (CSO), a group that worked to improve conditions for Mexican Americans. In 1958, she helped lead a successful campaign to get Mexican Americans elected to the Stockton city council.

In 1962, Huerta met César Chávez, a fellow CSO leader who was working to organize farmworkers in California. The two men formed the National Farmworkers Association (NFWA) that same year. Huerta served as the NFWA’s vice president and was instrumental in negotiating contracts between farmworkers and growers.

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In 1965, Huerta helped lead a five-year strike by California grape workers. The strike ended with a contract that included higher wages and improved working conditions for farmworkers.

In 1968, Huerta was injured while protesting against the Vietnam War outside the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. She was knocked down by a police baton, and her skull was fractured. The incident made national news, and Huerta became an even more visible leader of the farmworker movement.

In 1972, the NFWA merged with another farmworker organization to form the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta served as the UFW’s vice president and was once again involved in negotiating contracts between farmworkers and growers.

Throughout her career, Huerta has been an outspoken advocate for workers’ and civil rights. In addition to her work with the UFW, she has also been active in the feminist and Chicano rights movements. In 2002, she founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which works to empower communities through education and leadership development.

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Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which she received from President Barack Obama in 2012.

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