When Dolores Huerta started the country's first farm worker's union with Cesar Chavez, she defied 1950s gender norms and did something no one else did. What starts out as a fight for racial and labor justice soon turns into a fight for gender equality in the same union that she ends up leaving. Dolores has 11 children, three marriages, and almost dies from being nearly beaten to death by a San Francisco tactical police squad. She comes up with a vision that connects her new feminism with racial and class justice.
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When Dolores Huerta started the country's first farm worker's union with Cesar Chavez, she defied 1950s gender norms and did something no one else did. What starts out as a fight for racial and labor justice soon turns into a fight for gender equality in the same union that she ends up leaving. Dolores has 11 children, three marriages, and almost dies from being nearly beaten to death by a San Francisco tactical police squad. She comes up with a vision that connects her new feminism with racial and class justice.
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