“As a Latino, my family was aware of work, but…making the film was still a huge process of discovery for me.

“I think within and outside the movement, in the mainstream culture, women - and women of color in particular - are often marginalized, and a lot of their accomplishments have been erased,” Bratt says. Congress in 1992 - including the first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to Congress, Nydia Velázquez. Thanks in large part to the campaign, a historic number of women were elected to the U.S. More than a decade later, she helped lead the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Feminization of Power campaign, enlisting women to run for public office on local, state, and federal levels. Huerta had been instrumental in the passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, which gave the state’s farm workers the right to self-organize and fight unfair labor practices. The organization soon became a union and was the first in the country to represent farm workers’ interests, and helped give farm workers collective bargaining power against low wages and oppressive work conditions as United Farm Workers. Best known for her work as a labor-rights organizer alongside Cesar Chavez in the 1960s, Huerta gave voice to the struggles of farm workers in the United States, creating the Agricultural Workers Association and cofounding the National Farm Workers Association.

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