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Mural Of Civil Rights Leader Dolores Huerta Defaced

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS13) – Someone has defaced a mural of immigrant and workers' rights leader Dolores Huerta.

A Mission District mural that features Huerta's image, alongside civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, was vandalized over the weekend. Huerta's eyes were blacked out.

Similar graffiti also turned up on a likeness of Nelson Mandela nearby.

Huerta, 89, has worked for decades advocating for the rights of immigrants, farm workers and women in the US.

No suspect information has been released.

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