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Women's History Month Profiles: Dolores Huerta
… working at the intersection of civil and labor rights. Today's profile is Dolores Huerta. … Huerta was born in 1930 to Alicia and Juan Fern á ndez in Dawson, New Mexico. Her father was a farmworker and miner who became a state legislator after her parents divorced and Huerta moved with her mother to California. There, her mother worked as a waitress and cannery worker before eventually buying a small hotel and … Farm Workers (UFW), which formed in 1965. With UFW, Huerta organized workers, negotiated contracts and advocated for safer work conditions for farmworkers. She was a key organizer in the 1965 Delano grape workers strike and lead negotiator for the …