SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Dolores Huerta

1930 - Today

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Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965, managing boycott campaigns on the east coast and negotiating with the grape companies to end the strike. Some credit her with inventing the UFW slogan "sí se puede" (transl. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dolores Huerta is the 607th most popular social activist (down from 566th in 2019), the 10,451st most popular biography from United States (down from 9,038th in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Dolores Huerta ranks 607 out of 840. Before her are Salih Mahmoud Osman, Sylvia Rivera, Shin Dong-hyuk, Anna Aloys Henga, Iqbal Masih, and Martin Luther King III. After her are Yelizaveta Chaikina, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Lida Heymann, Neerja Bhanot, Manal al-Sharif, and Robert Emmet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Dolores Huerta ranks 555. Before her are Douglas Hurd, Tommy Kono, Lin Carter, Marie Senghor Basse, Jean Forestier, and Kauko Hänninen. After her are Ian Burgess, George Fernandes, Stanley Sadie, Roberta Peters, Vladimir Ryzhkin, and Aleksandar Matanović.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dolores Huerta ranks 10,453 out of 20,380. Before her are William Rosecrans (1819), Roxann Dawson (1958), Dwight Frye (1899), Spark Matsunaga (1916), Eldridge Cleaver (1935), and Anne Dudek (1975). After her are Mike Enzi (1944), Tom McMillen (1952), William Hood Simpson (1888), Anthony Michael Hall (1968), James Ewing (1866), and Thomas Ewing (1789).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Dolores Huerta ranks 91. Before her are Ella Baker (1903), Albert Parsons (1848), Ralph Abernathy (1926), Mamie Till (1921), Sylvia Rivera (1951), and Martin Luther King III (1957). After her are Barbara Bush (1981), Yolanda King (1955), James Meredith (1933), Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861), Aaron Swartz (1986), and Norma McCorvey (1947).

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