Labor Legend Dolores Huerta Dies at 96 After Decades of Good Trouble
Most people spend their eighties doing crosswords, but Dolores Huerta was still getting hauled off in zip-ties by police at 89.
Dolores Huerta basically co-built the modern farm labor movement from scratch alongside Cesar Chavez back in the 1960s. She spearheaded legendary grape boycotts, stood down corporate agricultural giants, and got arrested more than 20 times fighting for field workers who had practically zero legal rights.
She also carried an agonizing secret for most of that journey. Decades later, she revealed that Chavez had assaulted her, but she kept quiet through the height of the movement because she refused to let one man's abuse destroy the lifeline of thousands of farmworkers.
She took the hits, out-organized every bureaucrat in the room, and kept marching right up until the end.
History tends to sanitize its heroes, but the people who actually wrenched human rights out of the machine paid an impossibly heavy personal price.
Source: CNN
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