Dolores Huerta defies 1950s female norms by co-founding the country's first farm worker union with Cesar Chavez. What begins as a fight for racial and labor justice quickly transforms into a fight for gender equality inside the very union she is forced to leave. As she struggles to raise 11 children, three marriages, and is nearly killed by a tactical police unit in San Francisco, Dolores develops a worldview that relates her newly discovered feminism to racial and class justice.
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Dolores Huerta defies 1950s female norms by co-founding the country's first farm worker union with Cesar Chavez. What begins as a fight for racial and labor justice quickly transforms into a fight for gender equality inside the very union she is forced to leave. As she struggles to raise 11 children, three marriages, and is nearly killed by a tactical police unit in San Francisco, Dolores develops a worldview that relates her newly discovered feminism to racial and class justice.
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