It was against the rules of the 1950s for women to start a labor union. But Dolores Huerta did it with Cesar Chavez, another organizer. As she fights for labor and race equality, she also fights for gender equality in the same union. She is eventually forced to leave the union because of the fights. She has 11 kids, three marriages, and almost dies from a beating from a San Francisco tactical police squad. Dolores comes up with a vision that connects her newfound feminism with racial and class justice.
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It was against the rules of the 1950s for women to start a labor union. But Dolores Huerta did it with Cesar Chavez, another organizer. As she fights for labor and race equality, she also fights for gender equality in the same union. She is eventually forced to leave the union because of the fights. She has 11 kids, three marriages, and almost dies from a beating from a San Francisco tactical police squad. Dolores comes up with a vision that connects her newfound feminism with racial and class justice.
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