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...Monday afternoon in Quincy House, a large audience of Harvard students and faculty was spellbound by a five-foot-tall, 79-year-old mother of 11 children. Dolores Huerta, president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America—although delicate in appearance—exudes the calm passion and power that distinguishes leaders of her incredible historical stature. The daughter of a waitress and a coal miner, Señora Huerta’s lifelong fight for social justice is, as David G. Hernandez ’09 puts...
...Humanitarian of the Year Award is presented by the students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation to individuals who have exceptionally contributed to the humanitarian cause and whose works exemplify the mission of the foundation. No one fits that description better than Dolores Huerta. Like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi, Dolores Huerta and César Chávez mobilized a massive nonviolent movement that empowered impoverished, abused, and disenfranchised people to fight against injustice...
...Huerta was instrumental in organizing the migrant farm workers of California’s fields and co-founded the UFW in 1962. Later that year she pushed for legislation repealing the inhumane Bracero Program, which legally exploited the labor of Mexican nationals. In 1965, she directed the UFW’s national grape boycott, which communicated the worker’s suffering to the consumers in order to end subhuman wages, worker abuses, poor living conditions, and the use of toxic pesticides, among other atrocities. Her efforts culminated in a three-year collective bargaining between the UFW and the entire...
...Since then, Huerta has not ceased to selflessly serve the disadvantaged of America and the wider world. As she spoke at the podium on Monday, clad in purple, a customary symbol of the grape boycott, one could not help but admire her rare yet perfect combination of joyful charisma, fearlessness, and selflessness. She has been arrested 22 times for participating in non-violent civil disobedience strikes, but she still wears a smile that shines with hope, promise, and opportunity...
Tutu charmed the audience with his enthusiasm and energy, calling himself the “token male” on the panel and pumping his arms to the cheers of the crowd when Huerta noted that all humans were Africans, since the species Homo sapiens originated in Africa...