EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Dolores Huerta, the labor and civil rights leader who helped organize farmworkers in the United States, has died at 96, her family announced Wednesday.
“We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved mother, Dolores Huerta, has passed away today,” the family said in a post on Huerta’s verified Instagram account. The family asked for privacy as they grieve and said they would share plans to recognize her life and legacy.
Huerta was born in Dawson, New Mexico, on April 10, 1930, and grew up in California’s Central Valley…