How Dolores Huerta helped shape decades of the labor movement

To be an American means that we cannot forget how we got here in the first place. We have a country that is based on, built on slavery. And not only people from Africa that were brought here as slaves, because our indigenous population were also slaves. And the people of color have always been the founding members, you might say, of the United States of America. We need to remind people of that because people forget. Now let's get the real history and let's celebrate that. All the people that contributed, all the people that died so that we could have a democracy. Well in the farm workers movement we had farm workers that came from different ethnic groups. We had people who were Vietnam War veterans and then we had people who were undocumented who had just crossed the border. There were people from Puerto Rico, we had African-Americans, it was a mix of all of these different people and most of them had been brought into our country to do farm work. And so I think we were very blessed that we had this multiracial coalition because they were all being affected by the harsh treatments that they were working under. And getting them to all come together and to say, yeah, we're going to strike, we're going to boycott. And then here in San Francisco, we did a couple of big events here. And in fact, in one of those marches that we did, it was across the Golden Gate Bridge. And another time we sat down, I think in the middle of Army Street, and stopped the traffic. And we know that the schools here, like University of California, Berkeley, the peace movement was born against the Vietnam War. That there are many of the student leaders that came out of here. When you're organizing people, convincing them that they have power, that they can actually make the changes in their own lives, See leaders develop, and that payoff is just incredible.