Navy, Chavez experienced intense discrimination, racism, and segregation, experiences which formed him into the civil rights and environmental activist and champion of universal equality and dignity we know him for today, a legacy of inner strength and courage. Throughout childhood and his time in the U.S. It is always about people.” -Cesar Chavez.įor Cesar Chavez, born in Arizona in 1927, this could not be closer to the truth. Marisol Morales “The fight is never about the grapes or lettuce. The exhibition is being remodeled as a traveling banner exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) under the title “Dolores Huerta: Revolution in the Fields / Revolución en los Campos." More information on the traveling version may be found at. The “One Life: Dolores Huerta” exhibition was made possible through federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center the Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino and by the Guenther and Siewchin Sommer Endowment Fund.
Taína Caragol, Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Curator for Latino Art and History, was the curator for this exhibition. For more about the gallery exhibition, please visit: It was on view at the National Portrait Gallery from JMay 15, 2016, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the September 1965 grape strike that launched the farm workers movement. The exhibition was the first in a national museum to draw attention to her contributions. Huerta was instrumental in achieving major legal protections and a better standard of living for farm workers, yet she remains largely under-acknowledged in history. It illuminates Huerta as the co-founder, with César Chávez, of the United Farm Workers (UFW), and highlights her position as the union’s lobbyist and contract negotiator. This eleventh installment in the “One Life” series was the first devoted to a Latina. “One Life: Dolores Huerta” highlights the significant role of this Latina leader in the California farm workers’ movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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