APRIL 10: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Johnnie Tillmon

Johnnie Tillmon, director of the National Welfare Rights Organization and worked with Gloria Steinem and Aileen Hernandez on “Women, Welfare and Poverty” at the National Women’s Conference in Houston. She was born today in 1926.

Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta, a Chicana activist, labor organizer, and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union, was born today in 1930.

Deeper Dive

Watch Dolores Huerta discuss how she led a historic boycott against the grape industry to gain better working conditions for farmworkers. (via Makers.)