Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno A Film Screening with director Laurie Coyle

Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno

A Film Screening with director Laurie Coyle

A Labor Archives and Research Center Event  
Special Collections, Room 460 (4th Floor),
J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University 

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 | 2-3:30 pm

In Adios Amor, the discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot—Maria Moreno, a migrant mother driven to speak out by her twelve children’s hunger. Years before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta launched the United Farm Workers, Maria picked up the only weapon she had—her voice—and became an outspoken leader in an era when women were relegated to the background. The first farm worker woman in America to be hired as a union organizer, Maria’s story was silenced and her legacy buried—until now.