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2	2	119THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION H. RES. 326
5	5	Supporting the designation of April 10 as ‘‘Dolores Huerta Day’’, in honor
6	6	of the accomplishments and legacy of the trailblazing labor and civil
7	7	rights leader Dolores Huerta.
8	8	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
9	9	APRIL10, 2025
10	10	Ms. G
11	11	ARCIAof Texas (for herself, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. BERA, Ms.
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13	13	ROWNLEY, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. CASAR, Mr. CASTROof Texas, Ms. CHU,
14	14	Mr. C
15	15	ISNEROS, Mr. CORREA, Mr. COSTA, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. CUELLAR,
16	16	Mrs. D
17	17	INGELL, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. ESCOBAR, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr.
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19	19	ROST, Mr. GARCIAof California, Mr. GARCI´Aof Illinois, Mr. GOMEZ,
20	20	Mr. G
21	21	REENof Tennessee, Mr. HUFFMAN, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. LEEof Penn-
22	22	sylvania, Ms. L
23	23	EGERFERNANDEZ, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr.
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25	25	ENENDEZ, Ms. MOOREof Wisconsin, Mr. MULLIN, Ms. NORTON, Ms.
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27	27	CASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. PANETTA, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. POCAN,
28	28	Ms. P
29	29	OU, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Ms. RIVAS, Mr. RUIZ, Ms. SALINAS, Ms.
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31	31	A´NCHEZ, Mr. SOTO, Ms. STANSBURY, Mr. THOMPSONof California, Ms.
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33	33	ITUS, Mr. TORRESof New York, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Mr. VARGAS, Ms.
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35	35	ELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. WATERS, Mr. HERNA´NDEZ, and Mr. VICENTEGON-
36	36	ZALEZof Texas) submitted the following resolution; which was referred
37	37	to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
38	38	RESOLUTION
39	39	Supporting the designation of April 10 as ‘‘Dolores Huerta
40	40	Day’’, in honor of the accomplishments and legacy of
41	41	the trailblazing labor and civil rights leader Dolores
42	42	Huerta.
43	43	Whereas Dolores Huerta was born on April 10, 1930, in
44	44	Dawson, New Mexico;
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47	47	•HRES 326 IH
48	48	Whereas Dolores Huerta began her activism career in 1955
49	49	when she cofounded the Stockton, California, chapter of
50	50	the Community Services Organization, which worked to
51	51	improve voting access and economic conditions for
52	52	Latinos;
53	53	Whereas, with her coorganizer Ce´sar Cha´vez, Dolores Huerta
54	54	founded the National Farm Workers Association, the
55	55	predecessor of the United Farm Workers’ Union, in
56	56	1962;
57	57	Whereas Dolores Huerta was the driving force behind the na-
58	58	tionwide table grape boycotts in the late 1960s that led
59	59	to a successful union contract by 1970;
60	60	Whereas Dolores Huerta helped organize the Delano strike of
61	61	5,000 grape workers in 1965 and was the lead negotiator
62	62	in developing the ensuing contract;
63	63	Whereas Dolores Huerta led another consumer boycott of
64	64	grapes that was instrumental in the groundbreaking en-
65	65	actment of the California Agricultural Labor Relations
66	66	Act of 1975, the first law in the United States that al-
67	67	lowed farm workers to collectively organize and bargain;
68	68	Whereas Dolores Huerta has worked tirelessly to create safer
69	69	working conditions for farm workers, including elimi-
70	70	nating harmful pesticides;
71	71	Whereas Dolores Huerta served as the voice for feminism and
72	72	women’s equality within the farm workers movement;
73	73	Whereas Dolores Huerta originated the phrase ‘‘Sı´Se
74	74	Puede’’, which became a rallying cry for the farm work-
75	75	ers movement and against injustice everywhere;
76	76	Whereas Dolores Huerta remained committed to her prin-
77	77	ciples of nonviolent civil activism, even when faced with
78	78	violence at the hands of police and growers;
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82	82	Whereas, in 1993, Dolores Huerta became the first Latina
83	83	inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame;
84	84	Whereas Dolores Huerta worked in the latter part of her ca-
85	85	reer to elect more Latinos and women to political office,
86	86	and has been a champion for the rights of women and
87	87	Latinos;
88	88	Whereas Dolores Huerta traversed the country for 2 years on
89	89	behalf of the Feminist Majority’s Feminization of Power:
90	90	50/50 by the year 2000 Campaign encouraging Latinas
91	91	to run for office, which resulted in a significant increase
92	92	in the number of women representatives at the local,
93	93	State, and Federal levels;
94	94	Whereas Dolores Huerta also served as National Chair of the
95	95	21st Century Party founded in 1992 on the principles
96	96	that women make up 52 percent of the party’s candidates
97	97	and that officers must reflect the ethnic diversity of the
98	98	Nation;
99	99	Whereas Dolores Huerta has received numerous awards, in-
100	100	cluding the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in
101	101	1998 and in 2012 the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
102	102	the highest civilian honor;
103	103	Whereas Dolores Huerta holds 9 honorary doctorates, includ-
104	104	ing from Princeton University, Mills College, the Univer-
105	105	sity of the Pacific, and the University of Southern Cali-
106	106	fornia;
107	107	Whereas, in 1998, Dolores Huerta was named one of the 100
108	108	Most Important Women of the 20th Century by Ladies
109	109	Home Journal;
110	110	Whereas, in 2003, Dolores Huerta founded the Dolores
111	111	Huerta Foundation to continue her legacy of fighting for
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115	115	equality and civil rights, and is currently the president of
116	116	this foundation; and
117	117	Whereas the United States should continue to advance the ef-
118	118	forts of Dolores Huerta to ensure equal protection under
119	119	the law and civil rights for all people of the United
120	120	States: Now, therefore, be it
121	121	Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1
122	122	(1) supports the designation of ‘‘Dolores 2
123	123	Huerta Day’’; and 3
124	124	(2) honors Dolores Huerta’s legacy and con-4
125	125	tributions to advancing civil rights and equality. 5
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