{"id":510882,"date":"2026-10-28T18:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/510882\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:18:50","slug":"dolores-huerta-civil-rights-leader-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/510882\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores Huerta, civil rights leader, dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>FRESNO, Calif. \u2014 The long-time civil and labor rights leader Dolores Huerta died Wednesday at her home in Bakersfield. <\/p>\n<p>A family spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/28\/us\/dolores-huerta-dead.html\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the New York Times<\/a> the cause of death was cancer. <\/p>\n<p>Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers alongside Cesar Chavez and was instrumental in the labor movements in the 1960s and 70s. <\/p>\n<p>She maintained her activism up until her final years, often pushing for legislation in state, federal and local hallways. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Huerta revealed she was raped by Chavez during the start of the farmworker movement \u2014 a story she had never before revealed to the public. <\/p>\n<p>Dolores Huerta was 96.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a developing story. Check back for updates. FRESNO, Calif. \u2014 The long-time civil and labor rights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[959,151,153,152,4900,2174,339,16848,1431,17535,845,44271],"class_list":["post-510882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-activism","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-cancer","tag-civil","tag-death","tag-dolores-huerta","tag-family","tag-farmworkers","tag-labor","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}