Farmworkers Activist Dolores Huerta Will Be Focus of Smithsonian Exhibit

*This is the first time the Smithsonian’s One Life series honors a Latina. The exhibit runs from July 3 through May 2016. VL


NBC_News_2013_logoBy Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News

Dolores Huerta and her activism on behalf of the nation’s farm workers will be featured in an exhibit planned in July at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, museum officials said Wednesday.

Huerta’s role in the farmworker movement in the 1960s and 1970s are the focus of the planned exhibit, One Life: Dolores Huerta. The museum says this will be the first time a Latina is featured in one of its “One Life” series, which has had 11 installments.

The exhibit opens to the public July 3 and runs through May, 15, its run dates coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the September 1965 launch of the Delano grape strike and boycott. The museum said the exhibit will feature more than 40 objects including photos, original speeches she made to Congress, UFW memorabilia and Chicano artwork.

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