Dolores Huerta — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Serves as President at the Dolores Huerta Foundation, a civic advocacy organization she founded in 2002.
Co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged to become the United Farm Workers (UFW).
Helped organize the 1965 Delano grape strike and managed boycott campaigns.
Credited with inventing the UFW slogan "sí se puede" ('yes you can').
Recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award and the Hispanic Heritage Award.

Biography

Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and feminist activist, born on April 10, 1930. After working with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla. This organization later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to form the United Farm Workers (UFW).