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  • Author Appearance & Book Signing with Dr. Lori Flores Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants and the California Farmworker Movement

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

    Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. Professor Flores will discuss the history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez. She […]

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    “Dolores Huerta: Revolution in the Fields / Revolución en los Campos” Opening Reception

    Holocaust Museum Houston

    Dolores Huerta addressing an ecstatic audience in Sacramento after the Delano grape march. As they marched, she would call out to the people they passed to inspire them to join their movement. John Kouns, 1966. Courtesy of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at California State University, Northridge Join Holocaust Museum Houston for the opening […]

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    “The Soap Myth”

    Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater

    This film version of the play, “The Soap Myth,” is an interesting story that provokes discussion. More than a half-century after World War II at the desperate urging of a passionate survivor, a young investigative reporter finds herself caught between numerous versions of the same story. Played out against the backdrop of deadline reporting and […]