DATE: February 10, 2011

For Immediate Release

CONTACT: Shannon Carter, shannon_carter@tamu-commerce.edu

Joe Bernal at age 17 in Salinas, California on September 1, 1945.

Courtesy of the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project.

"I was a young man with seemingly a lot of time and energy and I wanted to do right...."
Joe Bernal, b. 1927, San Antonio, Texas

Images of Valor: A New Humanities Texas Exhibition on Display in Greenville, Texas

[Greenville, Texas]—Beginning February 21, 2011, at the Audie Murphy Cotton Museum, the
Converging Literacies Center (CLiC @ Texas A&M-Commerce) will present “Images of Valor:
U.S. Latinos and Latinas in World War II,” an exhibition created by the School of Journalism
and Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and produced by
Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Support for
“Images of Valor” was provided in part by a grant from Humanities Texas.

Through images and stories, this twelve-panel exhibition provides a historical overview of U.S.
Latino participation in World War II. In addition to photographs from the project's archives,
“Images of Valor” incorporates 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 features excerpts from the more
than 500 oral history interviews that were part of the project.

The exhibition will be available to the public from (February 21, 2011) to (March 31, 2011).

According to project director Shannon Carter (Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M-
Commerce), several additional Humanities Texas exhibits will be on display in Commerce,
including “Behold the People: R. C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas” (at Commerce
City Hall), “Jasper, Texas: The Healing of a Community in Crisis” (Gee Library, Texas A&M-
Commerce), and “Literary East Texas: An Exhibition of Photographs Honoring 25 East Texas
Writers” (Hall of Languages, Texas A&M-Commerce) All exhibits will be free and open to the
public from 2/21/2011 until 3/31/2011. Carter is Co-Director of CLiC.

For more information about viewing hours visit CLiC online at

http://convergingliteraciescenter.wordpress.com/

Humanities Texas develops and supports diverse programs across the state, including
lectures, oral history projects, teacher institutes, museum exhibitions and documentary
films. For more information, please visit Humanities Texas online at
http://www.humanitiestexas.org or call 512.440.1991.

Contact:
Shannon Carter, Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M-Commerce
Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu