Friday, April 5, 2013

Dolores Huerta

dolores huerta  is a labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with Cesar Chavez, co-founded the National Farm workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers', immigrants', and womens right, including the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award, the United States Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights and the Presidential Medal for Freedom. As a role model to many in the Latin community, Huerta is the subject of many corridors (ballads) and murals. Most people thinks she's only for the cause for latinos but really she is for all minorities she just got recognized for her work with latinos. 

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