Yes She Did!

with Dolores Huerta

When you decide to become a warrior, you can expect a lot of arrows to be slung at you.

Grassroots organizer Dolores Huerta talks to Kim about her first encounter with the deep poverty of California farmworkers in the 1950s, and how she took on the status quo (in a wrinkled sweater) during the landmark Delano Grape Strike. All the time, she fought on two fronts: resisting exploitation and also resisting sexism, sometimes from within the very labor movement she helped to launch.

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Smiling woman in a black and red dress against a red background

Dolores Huerta / Image courtesy Dolores Huerta Foundation