Dolores Huerta, labor leader and force for civil rights, dies at 96

Dolores Huerta, who with Cesar Chavez founded what became the United Farm Workers and led strikes and boycotts in the 1960s and ’70s that unionized many California table-grape growers, changing laws and the lives of thousands of migrant laborers, died today at her home in Bakersfield, Calif. She was 96.