{"id":1119,"date":"2016-07-25T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2020-12-17T10:52:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:52:02","slug":"migration-is-beautiful-website-premieres-at-2016-national-lulac-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2016\/07\/25\/migration-is-beautiful-website-premieres-at-2016-national-lulac-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration is Beautiful Website Premieres at 2016 National LULAC Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9abvoltMq1smqom2o1_r1_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1122\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9abvoltMq1smqom2o1_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Weaver holding a Migration is Beautiful poster\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9abvoltMq1smqom2o1_r1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9abvoltMq1smqom2o1_r1_1280-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9abvoltMq1smqom2o1_r1_1280-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>July 12th was the kickoff for the 2016 National LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) convention. Janet, assistant curator here at the IWA, attended the conference to promote \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/migration.lib.uiowa.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Migration is Beautiful<\/a>,\u201d a new website featuring vignettes, oral history interview clips, memoirs, letters, and &nbsp;photographs from the IWA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/migration.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/show\/about\/mujeres-latinas-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mujeres Latinas Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new website highlights the experiences and contributions Latinas and Latinos have made to the state of Iowa. It also hosts an interactive map that shows the migration of Latinos through Iowa during the 19th and 20th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Hola Iowa, a news outlet focusing on Latinos in the Midwest, featured a vignette and photos from the Migration is Beautiful website.<\/p>\n<p>We are very proud of Janet, and can\u2019t wait to hear more about the convention when she returns!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9abvoltMq1smqom2o2_r1_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1120\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9abvoltMq1smqom2o2_r1_1280-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Weaver and the Migration is Beautiful display\" width=\"610\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9abvoltMq1smqom2o2_r1_1280-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9abvoltMq1smqom2o2_r1_1280-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9abvoltMq1smqom2o2_r1_1280.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 12th was the kickoff for the 2016 National LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) convention. Janet, assistant curator here at the IWA, attended the conference to promote \u201cMigration is Beautiful,\u201d a new website featuring vignettes, oral history interview clips, memoirs, letters, and &nbsp;photographs from the IWA\u2019s Mujeres Latinas Project. The new website highlights<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2016\/07\/25\/migration-is-beautiful-website-premieres-at-2016-national-lulac-convention\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Migration is Beautiful Website Premieres at 2016 National LULAC Convention&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,150],"tags":[48,21,47,27],"syndication":[20,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}