Why Many Women Were Involved In The United Farm Workers Movement

Directions: Answer all of these questions as or after you watch the film. Upload your answers to the assignment and save this to add to your film journal at the end of the quarter. The film journal will have additional questions. Come to class prepared to discuss your answers.

1. What are some of the things about Dolores Huerta’s life that stood out to you as you watched the movie?
2. Why were so many women involved in the United Farm Workers movement? What types of positions did they hold?
3. What parallels did you notice between women’s roles in thew UFW and women’s roles in the earlier movements we have studied?
4. Angela Davis explains that today activists talk about the intersectionality of struggles while in the 1960s the activists just lived intersectionality. What do you think she means?
5. How do you think Dolores’s presence impacted other women’s political participation?
6. What do you think about watching a documentary about one woman in the context of a class that is all about social movements?