Overview
Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a struggle for racial and labor justice, soon becomes a fight for gender equality within the same union she is eventually forced to leave. As she wrestles with raising 11 children, three marriages, and is nearly beaten to death by a San Francisco tactical police squad, Dolores emerges with a vision that connects her new found feminism with racial and class justice.
Director and cast
- Dolores Huerta as Self
- Raúl Grijalva as Self (as Raul M. Grijalva)
- Hillary Clinton as Self
- Martin Luther King Jr. as Self (archive footage)
- Cesar Chavez as Self (archive footage)
- Robert F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage)
- Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage)
- Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage)
Comments
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