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Dolores Huerta, pioneering labor leader and civil rights activist who coined ‘Sí, se puede!’ dies at 96

Dolores Huerta, pioneering labor leader and civil rights activist who coined ‘Sí, se puede!’ dies at 96
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By Susan Montoya Bryan / Associated Press Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation’s fruit and vegetable fields and coined the enduring “Sí, se puede!” rallying cry, has died. She was 96. Huerta’s died of cancer Wednesday at her home...

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