Dolores Huerta, the labor organizer who co-founded the United Farm Workers with César Chávez and coined the rallying cry “Sí, se puede,” died Wednesday, October 28, at her home. She was 96. Her family announced her death in a statement through her foundation, the Associated Press reported.

Born in New Mexico and raised by a single mother in California's San Joaquin Valley, Huerta worked as a schoolteacher before turning to organizing farmworkers. In 2012, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, joking that he had borrowed her slogan for his 2008 campaign.

She founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation in California and, into her mid-90s, still marched and spoke across the country on race, poverty and women's rights.

Earlier this year, Huerta disclosed that Chávez had sexually abused her in the 1960s, a secret she had kept for about 60 years. She said she had stayed silent for fear of undermining the workers' movement, and she urged people to keep fighting for their rights.