BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Luisa Moreno

DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Luisa Moreno:

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Description of Pictures: Luisa Moreno
July 20, 2018 – January 2019
A temporary display, Luisa Moreno, in the permanent American Enterprise exhibition examines the lasting legacy of Moreno, the Guatemala-born labor organizer, who brought together more than 100 groups in 1938 for El Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española, the Spanish-Speaking People’s Congress. The display features objects representing Moreno’s work as a civil rights activist and labor organizer with union pins as well as her shawl and a pamphlet to rally national attention and halt Moreno’s deportation.

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[11] MORENO_180729_43.JPG	[12] MORENO_180729_50.JPG

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MORENO_180729_05.JPG: New Collections New Ideas History is always in flux. Curators collect new objects and embark on fresh research. This case features some of the museum's latest acquisitions and shares up-to-date interpretations of existing collections. The exhibition changes frequently; you can see past topics in the digital reader to your right.
2. MORENO_180729_13.JPG: Luisa Moreno's shawl, around 1980s Poetry book published by Luisa Moreno, 1927
3. MORENO_180729_15.JPG: Facing Backlash Luisa Moreno's labor organizing and civil rights activism drew the ire of the U.S. government during a time when anti-Latino and anti-Communist sentiments were high. Facing imminent deportation, Moreno left the United States in 1950.
4. MORENO_180729_19.JPG: Luisa Moreno in Mexico City, 1927
5. MORENO_180729_29.JPG: The Case of Luisa Moreno The FBI harassed her. The U.S. government deemed her an un-American communist. The Immigration and Naturalization Service nearly deported her. But Luisa Moreno dedicated herself to civil rights and to improving working conditions for laborers, especially Latinas. The Guatemala-born labor organizer brought together more than 100 groups in 1938 for El Congresso de Pueblos de Habla Espanola, the Spanish-Speaking People's Congress. The organization advocated for fair treatment of Latino/a laborers in the United States, both immigrants and citizens, and was one of the first U.S. assembled focused on Latino/a civil rights.
6. MORENO_180729_32.JPG: Pamphlet to rally national attention and halt Luisa Moreno's deportation,a round 1949
7. MORENO_180729_37.JPG: Organizing for Change Luisa Moreno worked with several unions throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Her bilingual outreach sought to improve working conditions in fields and canneries in the Southwest. She wrote pamphlets, organized strikes, and encouraged participation in unions.
8. MORENO_180729_39.JPG: Union pins from groups Luisa Moreno worked with, around 1930s
9. MORENO_180729_43.JPG: "They can talk about deporting me . . . but they can never deport the people that I've worked with and with whom things were accomplished for the benefit of hundreds of thousands of workers . . ." -– Luisa Moreno
10. MORENO_180729_50.JPG: Poetry book published by Luisa Moreno, 1927
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