Iconic civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, 82, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her lifelong commitment to the labor movement on Tuesday. “Dolores helped lead a worldwide grape boycott that forces growers to agree to some of the country’s first farmworker contracts,” said President Barack Obama during the White House ceremony. Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers union in 1962 with the late labor leader Cesar Chavez.