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Dolores Huerta, trailblazing advocate for migrant farmworkers, dies at 96

States Newsroom · October 28, 2026

Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. Dolores Huerta, a trailblazing civil rights activist who spent her life fighting to improve the working conditions of farmworkers — and founder…

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Dolores Huerta, trailblazing advocate for migrant farmworkers, dies at 96

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