Dolores Huerta Biography

Dolores Huerta is a community organizer and a renowned activist for civil rights. For over 50 years, she also has a contribution to labor rights and social justice. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez based the United Farm Workers union. She served as Vice President and performed a vital position in the various union’s accomplishments for 4 decades. In 2002, she obtained the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship. She used this money to set up the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking network-primarily based organizing to the state and countrywide actions to check-in and teach voters; endorse for schooling reform; result in infrastructure upgrades in low-profits communities; endorse for extra equality for the LGBT network, and create robust management development. She has obtained several awards. One of them included The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998. In 2012, President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the best civilian honor withinside the United States.

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