Dolores Huerta has died. Here’s WMNF’s 2018 interview with the labor and immigrant rights icon

News and Public Affairs Archives - WMNF 88.5 FM · Oct 29, 2026

Dolores Huerta died this week. Here’s how Associated Press remembered the legendary labor organizer:

Her family says the United Farm Workers co-founder, civil rights icon and feminist activist died Wednesday at the age of 96. With César Chavez, she co-founded what would become the United Farm Workers union. This year, Huerta shocked the Latino community and activist circles by revealing that Chavez had sexually abused her in the 1960s, leading to the birth of two children. Huerta said she’d kept it secret because she feared coming forward would compromise her life’s work and…