Rebel, Activist, Feminist, Mother: 'Dolores' Documentary Screening

"Exuberantly inspiring ... makes you want to march and dance." — David Talbot, San Francisco Chronicle

The Center for Multicultural and Diversity Education is partnering with the Workers' Justice Center to host a special screening of the PBS documentary, Dolores from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 28, in the Faulkner Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Arkansas. This screening is free and open to public. The door will open to the public at 5:30 p.m. with the movie starting at 6 p.m. This film will kick of Women's History Month activities for the Multicultural Center.

This award-winning documentary by writer, producer and director Peter Bratt, highlights an unsung hero in the fight for rights, justice and equality. The film's tagline says all you need to know about the documentary and Dolores Huerta: Rebel. Activist. Feminist. Mother.

"We want to set the record straight, I mean, women cannot be written out of history," says one of Huerta's eleven children.

History (his story) documents how Cesar Chavez transformed the U.S. labor movement by initiating the first farm workers' union. But missing from this story is his equally influential co-founder, Dolores Huerta, who tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century. 

Like so many powerful female advocates, Dolores and her sweeping reforms were-and still are -largely overlooked. Even as she empowered a generation of immigrants to stand up for their rights, her own relentless work ethic was constantly under attack. False accusations from foes and friends alike pushed Dolores out of the very union she helped create. Still, she remains as steadfast in her fight as ever at the age of 87. With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother to eleven, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one's life to social change.

Peter Bratt's provocative and energizing documentary challenges this incomplete, one-sided history and reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one's life to the fight for justice. Interweaving archival footage with interviews from Dolores and her contemporaries, the film sets the record straight on one of the most effective and undervalued civil and labor rights leaders in modern U.S. history.

For more information contact Magdalena Arroyo or Adrain Smith at 479-575-8405.