Dolores Huerta, the US civil rights leader known for campaigning for farm workers’ rights, has died aged 96.
Huerta was active in the movement for improved rights for farm workers during the 1960s and 1970s. Her work focused on addressing the concerns of people employed in the agricultural sector and on advancing their rights.
She continued her public work in later years, focusing on immigration and voting issues. Those campaigns extended her civil rights efforts beyond the farm workers’ movement and into wider debates over participation and equality in the United States.
Huerta’s death marks the passing of a longstanding figure in US civil rights activism. No further details about the circumstances or timing of her death were provided.
