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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNational Portrait Gallery Honors Dolores Huerta
National Portrait Gallery Honors Dolores Huerta
Feminist Majority Foundation board member and lifelong feminist activist Dolores Huerta was honored by the National Portrait Gallery last night as the first Latina person to have a featured exhibition at the museum.
Huerta is an active defender of civil rights, farm workers rights, womens rights, and immigrant rights, and has been for over five decades. She was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2011 for her tireless work. She also founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation for organizing and advancing human rights.
Huerta is often considered unparalleled in her skill in grassroots organizing, and has celebrated many successes. She co-founded with César Chavez the United Farm Workers Union (UFW). Huerta was also instrumental in the enactment of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, and was a principle UFW negotiator with major growers.
Huerta, a leading womens rights advocate, joined the Feminist Majority Foundation board and the board of its sister organization the Feminist Majority, in 1988.She was a leader of the Feminist Majoritys Feminization of Power campaign to inspire women to run for public offices.
The National Portrait Gallery exhibition is titled One Life: Dolores Huerta, and highlights the significant role of this Latina leader in the California farm workers movement of the 1960s and 70s. It is the first national museum to feature Huertas many accomplishments.
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http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/07/02/national-portrait-gallery-honors-dolores-huerta/
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National Portrait Gallery Honors Dolores Huerta (Original Post)
niyad
Jul 2015
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Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)1. She more than deserves it. n/t
niyad
(113,341 posts)3. she does indeed!
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)2. k&r