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.

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Cast

Dolores Huerta

Self

Raúl Grijalva

Self (as Raul M. Grijalva)

Hillary Clinton

Self

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)