Dolores Huerta on organizing, motherhood and ‘sexual coercion’ in her labor rights movement

She helped organize one of the largest labor movements in history,
but her name is often left out of the narrative. As an organizer in
the 1960s, Dolores Huerta says it was not always easy to assert her
power. “As a woman, I had to do something about the way the women
were being treated,” she told Art of Power’s Aarti Shahani. Huerta
explains how she raised 11 children in voluntary poverty while
leading a nationwide civil rights battle (01:45). She dissects the
mechanics of the famous 1965 Delano grape boycott, including how
she allied with some of America’s biggest leaders (13:50). And for
the first time, she reveals how higher-ups within the organization
handled an alleged case of what she calls “sexual coercion” less
than gracefully (30:40).