Soledad "Chole" Alatorre (1927 – March 25, 2020) was a Chicana labor activist who was active in the Greater Los Angeles Area, and was known for her work with the Centro de Acción Social Autónomo (CASA) and for her advocacy of civil rights among the Chicano community.
[2] Alatorre's father had raised her on stories of labor activism, and she was radicalized by the plight of migrant workers that she observed when traveling to the United States.
[6] CASA began to work for the rights of immigrant workers, and also provided them social services, including legal help and education.
[7] Alatorre and Corona constituted a more radical voice within that movement, arguing that undocumented immigrants had earned the right to work in the US, and that they ought to be welcomed.
[8] A few years later Alatorre and Corona were responsible for leading a change in the way the US Democratic Party perceived issues of immigration, partly through their work with labor unions.
[8] Alatorre also participated in renter's strikes, protested the Ku Klux Klan in San Diego, and advocated for more Latino representation on television.
[2] An obituary for Alatorre in the Los Angeles Times stated that the message she sought to convey through her activism in the 1950s—that illegal immigrants also deserved human rights—"went from heresy to the mainstream and forever altered politics in California and beyond".