Dolores Huerta: A Civil Rights Icon

This lesson plan introduces students to the life and work of the labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers (originally called the National Farm Workers Association) with César Chávez in 1962. Since the 1960s, Huerta has been an activist for workers’ rights, women’s rights and immigrant rights. In 2012, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.

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