Film Screening: Dolores
March 14, 2018 – 7:00PM at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
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.