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THE FIGHT IN THE FIELDS: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle is the first film to cover the full arc of Cesar Chávez' life. The film is not a traditional biography. It is social history with Chávez as the central figure, and the stories of many ordinary people who were part of the movement. Using archival footage, newsreel, and interviews with Ethel Kennedy, former California Governor Jerry Brown, Dolores Huerta, and Chávez' family, among others, the documentary traces the remarkable contributions of Chávez and others involved in this epic struggle.

THE FIGHT IN THE FIELDS follows the first successful organizing drive of farm workers in the United States, while recounting the many failed and dramatic attempts to unionize that led up to this victory. Among the many barriers to organizing was the Bracero Program, which flooded the fields with Mexican contract workers between World War II and the 1960s.

Chávez and many others helped bring about important changes in farmworkers lives. Many of these things are now taken for granted, such as getting fresh water and public toilets in the fields, and larger reforms like ensuring fair labor practices and ending the bracero program. THE FIGHT IN THE FIELDS pays tribute to the tremendous advances made by Chávez and all the men and women of the United Farmworkers Union who fought for a stake in the American dream.

Presented by Bullfrog Films
Directed by Ray Telles, Rick Tejada-Flores
Produced by Ray Telles, Rick Tejada-Flores

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