Postponed: Dolores

ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks,Bethlehem PA 18015

31 December, 2020

Description

NR 2017 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 César Chávez. Tirelessly leading the fight for racial and labor justice, Huerta evolved into one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century — and she continues the fight to this day, in her late 80s. With unprecedented access to this intensely private mother of 11, Peter Bratt's film Dolores chronicles Huerta’s 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 '70s, to her continued work as a fearless activist. Dolores is the first in a series of film screenings about Women and Politics, and is part of a year-long celebration at Northampton Community College of 100 years of women’s suffrage. This screening is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the NCC Humanities Endowment and PBS39.