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Meet Dolores Huerta: An American Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist

Jose from Mark Twain Dual Language Academy is spotlighting Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Cesar Chavez in 1962. Together they fought for better pay and safer working conditions for agricultural laborers, work that still shapes the industry today. Her story is one of the most important in American labor history, and there's a lot more to it than the history books cover.