Dolores
“Rebel. Activist. Feminist. Mother.”
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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Dolores Huerta
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Raúl Grijalva
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Cesar Chavez
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Peter Bratt Director · Jesse Dana Cinematographer Jessica Congdon Editor
United States release January 20, 2017 · Produced in United States · Production Artemis Rising, Latino Public Broadcasting
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Independent Lens
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Artemis Rising
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Latino Public Broadcasting
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Stick Films
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PBS
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United States
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English
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United States · January 20, 2017
Premiere · Sundance Film Festival
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