Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farmworkers Association alongside Cesar Chavez, organized the Delano grape strike, coined the phrase "Si, se puede," and spent six decades fighting for the rights of America's most exploited workers. Yet for most of that time, Chavez received nearly all the credit — and Huerta's central role in building the movement was systematically overlooked.

This episode traces Huerta from her childhood in Stockton through the grape boycotts, the political battles, the police beating that nearly killed her at fifty-eight, and the long overdue recognition of her role as one of the most consequential labor organizers in American history.

• Huerta's early activism and her decision to leave teaching to organize farm workers
• Co-founding the union with Chavez and her role in the Delano grape strike and  ...