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Civil Rights Activists
Description: A portrait of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta. The portrait is digitally created based on a photograph. It is a multicolored portrait made up of plants. Brown is the dominant color. Dolores looks out in the distance. She has long brown hair. César looks into the distance. He has a serious expression. He has short brown hair. He wears a collared shirt. The back of the banner is a brown print of a farm worker, plant, and cattle.
". . . Every person [is] a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world."
-- Dolores Huerta
Sometimes, making a better future means saying "no" to the present. As founders of the National Farm Workers Association, Dolores Huerta (born 1930) and César Chávez (1927–1993) stood up for the rights of California's agricultural workers. They pushed for better wages and working conditions. Their activism pointed to new ways of balancing commercial interests and community welfare. Their influence has traveled far and wide: Barack Obama adapted his slogan "Yes We Can" from Huerta's "Sí, se puede."
Credit: This portrait was made by artist Nettrice Gaskins using Deep Dream Generator, a computer vision program that uses artificial intelligence to generate new and complex images. |