Dolores Huerta, influential labor leader, feminist and civil rights icon, dies at 96

1. 1930
   Dolores Huerta is born in Dawson, New Mexico.
2. 1962
   Huerta and César Chavez start the National Farm Workers Association, later United Farm Workers.
3. 1968
   Huerta meets Robert Kennedy in Delano and becomes a volunteer on his presidential campaign.
4. 1988
   Huerta is seriously injured by a police baton while protesting George H.W. Bush in San Francisco.
5. 2012
   President Obama presents Huerta with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
6. This year
   Huerta reveals she was sexually abused by César Chavez in the 1960s, a secret kept for 60 years.

“I couldn’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farmworkers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”