{"id":15858,"date":"2017-08-31T10:46:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/?post_type=films&#038;p=15858"},"modified":"2024-11-14T15:01:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T23:01:26","slug":"dolores-huerta","status":"publish","type":"films","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/documentaries\/dolores-huerta\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who is Dolores Huerta? One of the most important, yet least known activists of our time, Dolores Huerta was an equal partner in founding the first farm workers union with C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez. Tirelessly leading the fight for racial and labor justice, Huerta evolved into one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century \u2014 and she continues the fight to this day, in her late 80s. With unprecedented access to this intensely private mother of 11, Peter Bratt&#8217;s film <\/span><b><i>Dolores<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> chronicles Huerta\u2019s life from her childhood in Stockton, California to her early years with the United Farm Workers, from her work with the headline-making grape boycott launched in 1965 to her role in the feminist movement of the &#8217;70s, to her continued work as a fearless activist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Featuring interviews with Gloria Steinem, Luis Valdez, Angela Davis, her children and more, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dolores<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an intimate and inspiring portrait of a passionate champion of the oppressed and an indomitable woman willing to accept the personal sacrifices involved in committing one\u2019s life to social change.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Dolores Huerta? 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