{"id":511114,"date":"2026-10-28T22:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/511114\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T22:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:44:35","slug":"timeline-the-life-and-legacy-of-dolores-huerta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/511114\/","title":{"rendered":"TIMELINE: The life and legacy of Dolores Huerta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, CA \u2014 Dolores Huerta, the labor leader who co-founded what became the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez and spent decades fighting for farm workers, immigrants&#8217; rights and women&#8217;s rights, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.turnto23.com\/obituaries\/dolores-huerta-united-farm-workers-co-founder-dies-at-96\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has died of cancer at her home in Bakersfield, California<\/a>. She was 96.<\/p>\n<p>Huerta helped lead the strikes and boycotts that unionized many of California&#8217;s grape growers in the 1960s and &#8217;70s, winning new protections and benefits for migrant laborers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Huerta broke a decades-long silence and publicly disclosed that Chavez, her longtime organizing partner, had sexually abused her.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a timeline of Huerta&#8217;s life and legacy:<\/p>\n<p>Mid-1950s \u2014 Dolores Huerta transitioned from teaching to activism after seeing many hungry farm children in her classroom.<\/p>\n<p>1955 \u2014 Huerta co-founded the Stockton chapter of the Community Service Organization, where she met Cesar Chavez.<\/p>\n<p>1962 \u2014 Chavez and Huerta co-founded the organization that would become the United Farm Workers union.<\/p>\n<p>1960s\u20131970s \u2014 Huerta helped lead the grape worker strikes and boycotts that unionized many of California&#8217;s grape growers, winning new protections and benefits for migrant laborers.<\/p>\n<p>1975 \u2014 The strikes and boycotts Huerta helped organize led to the landmark California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, protecting and regulating farm labor.<\/p>\n<p>1999 \u2014 Huerta concluded her service as UFW vice president, a role she held from the union&#8217;s founding, though she remained politically active.<\/p>\n<p>2012 \u2014 President Obama presented Huerta with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>2026 \u2014 Allegations arose that Chavez sexually abused women and minors, and Huerta broke her silence, publicly disclosing her own account of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>2026 \u2014 Huerta died of cancer at her home in Bakersfield, California, at age 96.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, CA \u2014 Dolores Huerta, the labor leader who co-founded what became the United Farm Workers union with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-511114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511114","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=511114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}