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Dolores Huerta, the fiery and resolute activist who helped launch the nation's first enduring union for poor farmworkers, dies

Dolores Huerta, the fiery and resolute activist who helped launch the nation's first enduring union for poor farmworkers, dies
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The emotional compass of the United Farm Workers of America for decades, Huerta attained singular stature as godmother of the Chicano power movement and doyenne of American labor.

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