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Dolores

Movie"Rebel Activist Feminist Mother"
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60
Dolores
NR 1 hr 35 minDocumentary
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Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the countrys first farm workers 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
DirectorPeter Bratt

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Carlos Santana, Regina K. Scully, Tom Steyer
Production Companies:Independent Lens Artemis Rising Latino Public Broadcasting Stick Films PBS