Dolores Huerta, left, with Hope Lopez discuss boycott strategy in Los Angeles on 17 December 1970. Photograph: Judd Gunderson/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
The UFW convention in Fresno, California, in 1975. The InterHarvest farm workers representative Armando Ruiz is at the podium, and behind him are, from left, UFW members and leaders Mack Lyons. Richard Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Gilbert Padilla, Philip Vera Cruz and Peter Velasco.Photograph: Cathy Murphy/Getty Images
Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez display photos of the conditions that farmworkers endure in San Joaquin valley farm labor camps, at a news conference in Fresno, California, on 21 November 1989.Photograph: Richard Darby/Fresno Bee/TNS
UFW president Arturo Rodriguez, right, and Dolores Huerta, lead a 150-mile march near Thornton, California, on 22 August 2002, to persuade then governor Gray Davis to sign a bill forcing binding arbitration when contract talks fail between growers and unions.Photograph: Rich Pedroncelli/AP
Dolores Huerta, center in black jacket, joins UFW members and their supporters during a rally on 26 March 2006, in downtown Los Angeles, to mark union founder Cesar ChavezâÂÂs birthday and to protest pending federal legislation aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration. Photograph: Ric Francis/AP
Dolores Huerta shouts some words of encouragement in downtown Albuquerque before a special election to decide whether abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy should be banned in the city, on 19 November 2013.Photograph: Roberto E Rosales/Albuquerque Journal/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
Dolores Huerta listens to Barack Obama speak about immigration reform at the Del Sol high school in Las Vegas on 21 November 2014.Photograph: Sam Morris/Las Vegas Review-Journal/AP
Jane Fonda, Dolores Huerta, Grey Wolf, Frances Fisher and Lily Tomlin rally against Wells Fargo in solidarity with the people of Standing Rock in Hollywood, California, on 21 December 2016. Photograph: Tommaso Boddi/AFP/Getty Images
Dolores Huerta greets students during the first Dolores Huerta Day at the Dolores Huerta international academy in Fontana, California, on 15 April 2019.Photograph: Will Lester/MediaNews Group/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/Getty Images
Dolores Huerta receives an honorary degree from the University of Southern California on 12 May 2023.Photograph: Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News/Getty Images
Dolores Huerta attends an election night event for California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra on 2 June 2026 in Los Angeles. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP