4.8 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Yes, so can't. |
0:03.0 | Thank you. |
0:04.0 | Thank you very much. |
0:17.0 | Thank you. |
0:19.0 | Thank you. |
0:23.1 | That's 89-year-old civil rights activist Dolores Werta |
0:25.2 | leading a crowd in a cheer of |
0:27.2 | Si Se Puele. |
0:28.7 | Together with Cesar Chavez, |
0:30.3 | Dolores co-founded the organization |
0:31.9 | that would go on to become |
0:33.3 | the United Farm Workers. |
0:35.1 | In 1965, she helped |
0:36.7 | organize the successful Delano Grape Strike, |
0:39.5 | and she was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract. We recorded this conversation with |
0:44.9 | Dolores in front of a live audience at Seton Hall University and talked about everything from |
0:50.3 | workers' rights and racism to the importance of taking credit and what it means to dedicate |
0:55.1 | your life to a cause aimed beyond yourself. |
1:01.8 | Dolores, what an honor. Thank you so much. I want to go way back. Start at the beginning. |
1:07.8 | You've said that your mother was the most dominant person in your life. |
1:13.7 | What is your most vivid memory of your mother? Oh my God. Well, my mother was, |
1:19.7 | she was not plamboyant, had a very gentle demeanor, spoke in a very soft voice, |
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