From transforming farmworker rights to empowering generations of Latino leaders, Dolores Huerta leaves an enduring legacy of economic justice, civil rights and community leadership. Her extraordinary contributions were honored in Chicago just one year before her passing.
The passing of Dolores Huerta on October 28, 2026, at the age of 96 marks the end of an extraordinary chapter in American labor and civil rights history. For more than seven decades, Huerta challenged economic inequality, organi
