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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Dolores Huerta

1930 - Today

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Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the United Farmworkers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 in California and was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract that was created after the strike.Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers', immigrants', and women's rights, including the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award, the United States Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was the first Latina inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1993.Huerta is the originator of the phrase "Sí, se puede". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dolores Huerta has received more than 1,765,513 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Dolores Huerta is the 513th most popular social activist (down from 441st in 2019), the 9,917th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,400th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 21

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  • 1.50

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  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Dolores Huerta ranks 513 out of 538Before her are Indira Bajramović, Dorothea Dix, Aed Carabao, Efua Dorkenoo, Jamnalal Bajaj, and Bogaletch Gebre. After her are Beyers Naudé, Iqbal Masih, Frances Willard, James Larkin, Bram Fischer, and Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Dolores Huerta ranks 493Before her are Catherine Hardy Lavender, Nikolai Puchkov, F. Albert Cotton, Bertha Brouwer, Lionel Cox, and Geeta Dutt. After her are Booker Ervin, Petar Šegvić, Roberta Peters, Yuriy Tyukalov, Miguel Seijas, and Ardalion Ignatyev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dolores Huerta ranks 9,917 out of 18,182Before her are Summer Phoenix (1978), Randy Barnes (1966), Miguel Cotto (1980), Ol' Dirty Bastard (1968), Patricia Barber (1955), and Donald Petrie (1954). After her are Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), A.J. Styles (1977), Chris Carmack (1980), Ben Browder (1962), Eddie Kaye Thomas (1980), and John Hoyt (1905).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Dolores Huerta ranks 81Before her are Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), Martin Luther King III (1957), Sylvia Rivera (1951), Lillian Wald (1867), Aaron Swartz (1986), and Dorothea Dix (1802). After her are Frances Willard (1839), Yolanda King (1955), Bayard Rustin (1912), Mario Savio (1942), Roger Stone (1952), and Frank Kameny (1925).

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