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UFW activist Dolores Huerta's "riches to rags" story

Sep 13, 2017
The movement "became her No. 1" child, says Peter Bratt, who with Carlos Santana made a documentary about Huerta.
United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta organizing marchers on the second day of March Coachella in Coachella, California, in 1969.
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Diego Luna on Chavez film and getting American backing

Mar 28, 2014
The director talks the first bio-pic to celebrate the history and accomplishments of activist Cesar Chavez and his movement.