The famous empowering words "Sí, se puede" come from civil-rights activist Dolores Huerta. She is a labor leader who is better known for helping César Chávez as the cofounder of the National Farmworkers Association, now called United Farm Workers.
Huerta has fought for economic improvements for Latinx, helped improve the lives and wages of farm workers, and supported laws that included the 1960 bill to permit Spanish-speaking people to take the California driver's test in Spanish, the 1963 legislation to extend the federal program Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) to California farmworkers, the 1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, and more.
Because of her outstanding work, Huerta has been awarded several times for advocating immigrants' and women's rights. She won the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award, the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Huerta was the first Latina inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, and with her work, she's proven that indeed, sí se puede.
