Dolores Huerta, activist who stood behind farmers and Latinos, dies at 96
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[0:00] Joining me now here at the desk here in
[0:01] New York, CBS News senior White House
[0:02] and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe.
[0:04] And we're going to get to Alaska in a
[0:05] second, but I do want to take a moment
[0:07] on this program to acknowledge the death
[0:09] today at age 96 of Doloresa.
[0:12] >> Yeah.
[0:12] >> Who is a significant figure in the civil
[0:14] rights movement in this country for farm
[0:17] workers.
[0:17] >> Absolutely.
[0:18] >> Starting in California with Cesar
[0:19] Chavez. There's a problematic history
[0:21] with Cesar Chavez broadly and with
[0:23] Dolores Huerta specifically charges that
[0:26] he raped her early on in their
[0:27] organizing career. She herself a
[0:30] stalwart for that community, for that
[0:33] advocacy and a successful advocate for
[0:35] farm workers for going on 40 years.
[0:37] >> Absolutely. And and and increasingly in
[0:39] the last se