{
  "id": 16980123,
  "title": "US civil rights icon Dolores Huerta dies at 96",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/us-civil-rights-icon-dolores-huerta-dies-at-96",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-28T23:33:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3372496/us-civil-rights-icon-dolores-huerta-dies-96"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Dolores Huerta, the US labour leader and civil rights icon whose union work changed the lives of migrant workers, has died, her family said on Wednesday. She was 96. For nearly four decades Huerta was vice-president of United Farm Workers, the union she founded with Cesar Chavez, organising strikes and walkouts that won improvements in working conditions for the millions of men and women who…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}