Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta celebrates 95th birthday
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Happy birthday, Dolores Huerta!
The labor leader and local civil rights icon turned 95-years-old on Thursday, and it hasn't gone unnoticed.
The United Farm Workers co-founder was honored Thursday in Sacramento on Dolores Huerta Day.
The celebration comes two days after she was honored in Los Angeles by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors.
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She seems to not have slowed down much at all.
'It's a very critical moment in the United States of America, what we're going through right now, said Huerta. 'People really have to step up and we have to fight for justice for other people.'
Meanwhile, all systems are a go in her adopted hometown of Bakersfield, for the $35 million Dolores Huerta Peace and Justice Cultural Center, which will feature a hologram of Huerta discussing her life and times.
The center is tentatively scheduled to break ground at 21 and Eye streets in June.
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