"Cofounder and first vice president of the United Farm Workers union, Dolores Huerta is the most prominent Chicana labor leader in the United States. For more than thirty years she has dedicated her life to the struggle for justice, dignity, and a decent standard of living for one of our country's most exploited groups, the women and men who toil in the fields. The recipient of countless community service, labor, Hispanic, and women's awards and the subject of many newspaper articles, as well as corridos [ballads] and

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