EPISODE · May 17, 2022 · 24 MIN
Dolores Huerta: Yes She Did!
from PORTRAITS · host National Portrait Gallery
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. See the portraits we discuss: Huerta with ‘Huelga’ Sign Huerta at Delano Grape Strike Huerta with Fred Ross Huerta by Barbara Carrasco Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes
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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. See the portraits we discuss: Huerta with ‘Huelga’ Sign Huerta at Delano Grape Strike Huerta with Fred Ross Huerta by Barbara Carrasco Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes
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