Homegrown Heroes

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Homegrown Heroes

Homegrown Heroes is an exhibition exploring how we advance civil rights in our region. Visit the exhibition to learn from the experiences of some of Inland Southern California’s many civil rights leaders.

Civil rights work is all around you. It is being done by people in your community: your neighbors, your colleagues, the people you meet in the grocery store. They saw something in their lives that they wanted to change. Making the decision to act is what sets them apart.  Many of the individuals profiled in this exhibition insist that they “were just doing their job,” supporting their friends, being a “facilitator,” or fell into community work “accidentally” while advocating for the people they love, and yet their actions had powerful effects on our communities and the nation.

These individuals are only a few of our region’s many leaders who advance all of our rights in the areas of race and ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, gender, and national origin. Within all of us is a homegrown hero, what actions will you take to make your community a better place?

This exhibition is made possible with support from:

Sponsors

Advocate

Friends

This exhibition is also made possible with support from:

Curators