Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers co-founder who accused César Chavez of sex abuse, dead at 96

Dolores Huerta, the pioneering labor activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers union and spent decades fighting for better working conditions for America's agricultural workers, has died. She was 96.

Huerta died at her home on Wednesday in Bakersfield, California, surrounded by her close family, her foundation announced.

Svante Myrick, president of the progressive advocacy group People For the American Way, where Huerta served on the board of directors for 22 years, remembered...