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Dolores Huerta, influential labor leader, feminist and civil rights icon, dies at 96

Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation's fruit and vegetable fields and coined the phrase "Sí, se puede!" that became a widespread rallying cry.

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