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huerta4Ty: Thank you for allowing me to be a guest blogger today at Written Voices. Today, in the Celebrate Women in Leadership series, I want to highlight labor leader and community organizer Delores Huerta.

Dolores Huerta, labor leader, social activist, and community organizer was the co-founder of the United Farm Workers. She started this organization with well-known activist Cesar Chavez in the 1950s. Raised in the central San Joaquin Valley community of Stockton, California, Huerta was well-known for her leadership the early years of farm worker organizing.

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