Dolores Huerta will spend the evening of March 16 with guests of the Oakland Public Library.
Huerta has been a social justice advocate and worked for the rights of laborers for more than 50 years.
She established the Dolores Huerta Foundation after receiving the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship in 2002. Huerta has received many other awards, including The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Bill Clinton in 1998 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, from President Barak Obama in 2012.
The free online event starts at 5:30 p.m. and ends at 6:30 p.m. Huerta will talk to guests about her life, her work and her legacy. A question-and-answer session will follow the talk. click hereThe talk is made possible by the Friends of the Oakland Public Library, a nonprofit that raises money for the library.
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