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‘Dolores Huerta Day’ proclaimed in California on civil rights icon’s 96th birthday
Updated: 3:12 PM PDT Apr 10, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation Friday marking April 10, 2026, as “Dolores Huerta Day.”Falling on the civil rights icon’s 96th birthday, the text says that “despite police brutality, violence, sexism, and racism, Huerta has always been relentless in her lifelong pursuit of justice, showing extraordinary resilience.”Huerta was born in a small mining town in New Mexico and spent most of her life in California’s Central Valley advocating and fighting for the rights of workers and their families.She co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 and, even now in her 90s, has continued her advocacy work.She became the first Latina inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993. She also received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in 1998 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, and she was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2013.If you want, I can also make this sound more like a TV news script or web story.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation Friday marking April 10, 2026, as “Dolores Huerta Day.”
Falling on the civil rights icon’s 96th birthday, the text says that “despite police brutality, violence, sexism, and racism, Huerta has always been relentless in her lifelong pursuit of justice, showing extraordinary resilience.”
Huerta was born in a small mining town in New Mexico and spent most of her life in California’s Central Valley advocating and fighting for the rights of workers and their families.
She co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 and, even now in her 90s, has continued her advocacy work.
She became the first Latina inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993. She also received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in 1998 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, and she was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2013.
If you want, I can also make this sound more like a TV news script or web story.