Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta Dies At 96

Dolores Huerta just died at her home at the age of ninety-six. She co-founded the United Farm Workers union and coined the famous rallying cry, Sí, se puede. She kept a busy schedule well into her nineties, speaking about rights and poverty. In a major revelation this year, she shared that she was sexually abused in the sixties by movement co-founder César Chavez. She kept the secret for sixty years to protect her life work for farmworkers. Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in twenty twelve and admitted he stole her slogan for his own campaign. She was jailed twenty-two times for union protesting. During a nineteen eighty-eight protest, a police officer struck her with a baton and pulverized her spleen. She raised thirteen children and spent decades fighting for labor and civil rights. Her family says they will soon share plans to celebrate her incredible legacy.