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Dolores Huerta: The Woman Who Taught Us to Say “Sí, Se Puede”

Celebrating Women's History Month with a badass a day.

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Rudy Martinez
Mar 11, 2025
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Let me tell you about Dolores Huerta. Not the sanitized, history-book version of her, but the real, fiery, unapologetic Dolores—the woman who looked at injustice and said, “Not on my watch.”

Dolores was born in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico, but her story really began in the farmlands of California. Her father was a farmworker and union activist, and her mo…

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