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Museum of Ventura County — Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta, Newly Announced Exhibits and more!

by Community Contributor • February 12, 2020 • Comments Off

Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta

March 19, 2020 @ 6:30PM at the Museum of Ventura County!

The Museum of Ventura County is honored to host Dolores Huerta on March 19, 2020 @ 6:30 PM for a talk about her years working with the UFW, her work building community and organizing for change, and so much more. Guests will have the opportunity to tour the Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo exhibit both before and after the talk. Admission is $5 for museum members, $15 for non-members.

Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as Vice President and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. Dolores Huerta has received numerous awards: among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. Tickets are on-sale now!

Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo

Special Opening Reception on March 14, 2020 @ 2—4PM at the Museum of Ventura County!

Jorge Corralejo, a longtime local activities and civic leader, will display his history of work at both the Museum of Ventura County and the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula for this special two-location exhibit. Join us at the Museum of Ventura County on March 14, 2020 @ 2—4 PM for a special opening reception! Admission is free for Museum members, $5 for nonmembers.

“Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines” is a photography exhibit from the 1970’s labor strikes featured along with memorabilia from the collection of longtime local activist and civic leader, Jorge Corralejo. Visitors will learn about his time with United Farm Workers, working alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta from the Boston A & P strikes to the streets of Oxnard.

Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo will be on display from March 14, 2020—April 26, 2020 at the Museum of Ventura County and from March 20, 2020-August 2, 2020 the Agriculture Museum in Santa

Paula.

Oxnard Film Society Screening of “Dolores”

March 9, 2020 @ 3:30 and 6:30PM at the Plaza Cinemas 14 in Oxnard

In conjunction with the upcoming exhibit Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo and the Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta speaking event, The Museum of Ventura County is excited to co-sponsor with the Oxnard Film Society for two special screenings of “Dolores” on Monday, March 9, 2020 @ 3:30 PM and 6:30 PM at the Plaza Cinemas 14 in Downtown Oxnard. Tickets can be purchased at the door.

The Museum of Ventura County Receives a Grant to

Digitize Forty Volumes of the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly Journal

The Museum of Ventura County has received a grant through CRG, or the California Revealed Grant, to digitize forty volumes of the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly Journal. The Museum’s Research Library and Archives will digitize 40-years of historical writing, spanning 1955 to 1995, to be made available through the California Revealed website and on the Museum’s Research Library and Archives webpage in the Spring of 2020.

“The Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly Journal is an immensely important local history resource. The Quarterly covers topics from the creation of the county to major disasters to important historical figures and everything in between,” says Research Library and Archives Director Deya Terrafranca. “The digitization of the first 40 volumes will result in a substantial increase in the public’s access to local history and cultural information.”

The digitization and online access to its collections is an integral part of the Museum’s reinvention. The Reinvention Campaign includes six pillars: Relevant Programs, Sustainable Funding, Transparent Governance, Robust Partnerships, Compelling Vision, and Accessible Collections. The Museum’s Library and Archives is working diligently to increase access to the collections by making its catalogs available online and digitizing historically rich collections like the Journal. California Revealed is a State Library-funded initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and serve online historically significant Californiana (e.g., books, documents, audiovisual recordings, and already digitized materials) to the public.

Read the entire story at VCStar.com.

Image: Main Street and Figueroa in 1863. Museum of Ventura County Image PN261. The Journal of Ventura County “Roll Over The Ranchos”, 1955, 2019.

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Ventura Music Festival 2020 Preview

Sunday, February 16, 2020 @ 3:30—5PM Join us at the Museum for this free event and learn about the 2020 Ventura Music Festival lineup of talented musicians!

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