Dolores Huerta ‘stayed in the fight’ for 7 decades, inspiring generations of Californians

Nigel Duara & Lynn La CalMatters At nearly every step of the farmworker movement, from its earliest days organizing in the 1965 Delano grape strike to the 1986 law granting amnesty to nearly 3 million undocumented migrants, Dolores Huerta was there. Huerta, 96, died Wednesday at home in Bakersfield. Just two months before, she was at a rally on the steps of the state Capitol. California’s political and labor leadership remembered her as a tireless advocate for farmworker rights — one who coined the United Farmer Worker motto and rallying cry, “Si, Se Puede,” or “Yes, We Can.” Every year on April 10, California honors her contributions by declaring the day as Dolores Huerta Day. “Dolores’ leadership in fighting for a union for California’s farmworkers, UFW, is only part of her historic story,” said Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Labor Federation. “Dolores stayed in the fight for working people for decades.

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