OPEN HOUSE & RECEPTION - Images of Valor: U.S. Latinos and Latinas of World War II
Sat, Apr 26
|MACRI Visitor Center
Time & Location
Apr 26, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
MACRI Visitor Center, 2123 Buena Vista St, San Antonio, TX 78207, USA
Guests
About the event
Join us for an open house and reception at the MACRI Visitor Center. Enjoy refreshments and a tour of Images of Valor: U.S. Latinos and Latinas of World War II.
🎖️Saturday, April 26, 2025
🎖️2 PM - 4 PM
🎖️MACRI Visitor Center - 2123 Buena Vista Street, San Antonio, TX 78207
Through images and stories, this exhibition provides a historical overview of U.S. Latino participation in World War II. Images of Valor incorporates archival photographs with contemporary photographs of men and women of the WWII generation by photojournalist Valentino Mauricio. The exhibition focuses on individual stories that reveal larger themes such as citizenship and civil rights and includes excerpts from oral history interviews with the featured Latino veterans.
Images of Valor: U.S. Latinos and Latinas in World War II is curated by the Voces Oral History Center at The University of Texas at Austin and presented in partnership with Humanities Texas,…