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Labor leader Dolores Huerta speaking at Oakton Community College Thursday

Posted February 27, 2018 12:00 am

Daily Herald report

Nationally known labor union leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962 and served as its vice president for more than 40 years, will speak at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines on Thursday to help kick off Women's History Month.

The event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, in the TenHoeve Center, rooms 1604-10, on the campus at 1600 E. Golf Road.

Huerta received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in 1998 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. She also established the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which specializes in creating leadership opportunities for community organizing, leadership development, civic engagement and policy advocacy in areas concerning health and the environment, education and youth development and economic development.

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