Dolores

Please join us for a special screening of the movie Dolores at The Lyric Theatre (135 College Ave Blacksburg) on March 5 at 7 pm in celebration of Women's Month. All are welcome! Tickets for VT students (with ID) and kids under 12 are FREE, and $5 for the general public.

Sponsored by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Diversity Council, El Centro, and LASO at Virginia Tech.

In the 1950's, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer's union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.

Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a struggle for racial and labor justice, soon becomes a fight for gender equality within the same union she is eventually forced to leave. As she wrestles with raising 11 children, three marriages, and is nearly beaten to death by a San Francisco tactical police squad, Dolores emerges with a vision that connects her new found feminism with racial and class justice.