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 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Dolores Huerta is the 565th most popular social activist (down from 513th in 2019), the 9,036th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,895th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Dolores Huertas by language

Over the past year Dolores Huerta has had the most page views in the with 192,605 views, followed by Spanish (22,058), and French (2,984). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Spanish (70.44%), Egyptian Arabic (58.40%), and Basque (46.35%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Dolores Huerta ranks 565 out of 840. Before her are Vladimir Kara-Murza, Usha Mehta, Urani Rumbo, Mina Ahadi, Ralph Abernathy, and Emily Hobhouse. After her are Wu'erkaixi, Sam Childers, Peter Nguyen Van Hung, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Annie Kenney, and Aslı Erdoğan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Dolores Huerta ranks 507. Before her are Regīna Ezera, Heather Harper, Georg Stollenwerk, Monique Mercure, Alifa Rifaat, and James Fifer. After her are Kenny Wheeler, Fatos Arapi, Petar Šegvić, Allan Williams, George Steinbrenner, and Roberta Peters.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dolores Huerta ranks 9,036 out of 20,380. Before her are Carmine Caridi (1934), Milt Kahl (1909), Elizabeth Cotten (1893), Chris Hillman (1944), Ray Bryant (1931), and William Stanley Jr. (1858). After her are Mary Stuart Masterson (1966), Mildred Wiley (1901), Kevin Von Erich (1957), Lonnie Johnson (1899), Estelle Reiner (1914), and Roy Ayers (1940).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Dolores Huerta ranks 81. Before her are Abraham Flexner (1866), Karen Silkwood (1946), Roger Stone (1952), Bill Haywood (1869), Mamie Till (1921), and Ralph Abernathy (1926). After her are Sam Childers (1963), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), Albert Parsons (1848), James Meredith (1933), Sylvia Rivera (1951), and Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861).

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