As she walked across Delta College's campus toward Atherton Auditorium to speak to hundreds of students and employees, Dolores Huerta paused before a bronze plaque.
It was the first time she had visited the Dolores Huerta Plaza, renamed in her honor years earlier.
For event organizers and and admirers of the civil rights icon, this was a full-circle-round moment. They watched, some with smiles, some with tears, as she read the plaque that bore her name.
The visit to the plaque highlighted an entire day of intense emotions as Huerta returned home, to Delta College, which she attended generations ago when it was known as Stockton College.
Her message, however, was largely focused on the future, and what students and tomorrow's leaders can do to organize and make the world a better place.
"I know sometimes people think, well, organizing, that's not very significant," she told The Record. "But when you think about it, and we think of all of the changes that we have made in our country... all of this came together because people organized. We can change everything when people come together and they take direct action.. this is how we make the change."
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