Arizona State University Libraries. Department of Archives and Special Collections
Title:
Chicano/a Research Collection Small Manuscripts
Inclusive Dates:
1891-2010
Bulk Dates:
1970-2010
Quantity:
43 Boxes
(21.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract:
This guide describes all of the small manuscript collections held in ASC's Chicano/a Research Collection. These collections generally consist of 1-2 folders and document Mexican American history in Arizona from the late 19th century to the early 21st century. Manuscripts, personal papers, professional papers, and family history projects are included. All of these descriptions were originally entered into ASC's Special Materials Index between 1996 and 2014.
Identification:
MM CHSM 750-MM CHSM 921
Language:
Material in English
Repository:
Arizona State University Library. Chicano Research Collection P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, AZ 85287-1006 Phone: (480) 965-4932 E-Mail: archives@asu.edu Questions? Ask An Archivist!
Historical Note
The Chicano Studies Collection was established in 1970 in response to the academic needs of Chicano students and faculty in higher education. Its purpose was to obtain works by and about Mexican Americans, or Chicanos, in the United States, and to place those materials in a separate library collection.
In its early period of growth and development, the Chicano Studies Collection began as a circulating collection of books which would represent and reflect the current thought and philosophy of the so-called Chicano Movement. The Chicano Movement gave expression and voice to those writers, scholars, researchers, and educators who wanted recognition of Mexican American history, culture, language, tradition, heritage and ethnicity. As a result, the Chicano Studies Collection became a unique and growing collection of books, newspapers, periodicals, microforms, and ephemera with strengths in Chicano literature, 20th century Chicano history, bilingual education, immigration, civil rights movements, and Chicana-feminist expression.
In 1985, the Chicano Studies Collection became part of the newly-created Department of Archives and Manuscripts, which includes the Arizona Collection, the University Archives, the Benedict Visual Literacy Collection, and the Labriola National American Indian Data Center.
Scope and Content Note
This guide describes all of the small manuscript collections held in ASC's Chicano/a Research Collection. These collections generally consist of 1-2 folders and document Mexican American history in Arizona from the late 19th century to the early 21st century. Manuscripts, personal papers, professional papers, and family history projects are included. All of these descriptions were originally entered into ASC's Special Materials Index between 1996 and 2014.
Arrangement
Each record in this guide describes one collection, including the collection's call number (formatted as MM CHSM:[#]), title, and inclusive dates. This information is followed by name and subject headings indicating the collection's subject(s), associated name(s), publisher(s), and author(s). Because these headings were originally assigned and formatted inconsistently, these terms have been standardized using Library of Congress subject and name headings, which can be searched at http://authorities.loc.gov/.
To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or calling (480) 965-4932. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Monday through Friday. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.
Copyright
Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.
Mendoza recalls his military service in Vietnam and the events in his life that led to his enlistment in 1967. Mendoza was sent to Vietnam, where he served with the U.S. Army in Cu Chi in 1968-1969. His letter to PBS documentarian Ken Burns was sent in protest to Burns' ignoring the contributions of Mexican American Vietnam and World War II veterans in his popular 2007 PBS documentary The War. Other Mexican American Vietnam and World War II veterans agree with Mendoza and their comments about Burns appear in this manuscript.
The Chicano/a heritage of Glendale is one rooted in indigenous history, agriculture, and immigration. The Hispanic population is growing rapidly in Glendale and the contributions of Mexican Americans to the history of Glendale cannot be overlooked. Oral history interviews with some residents are included with this manuscript.
Ray Martinez and other Mexican-American veterans of American Legion Post 41 of Phoenix fought poverty, racism and discrimination in their South Phoenix community.
Gallego Elementary School, Sunnyside School District #12, Tucson, Arizona was named in honor of two brothers who donated the land and incorporated the district in 1921-1922.
A portfolio that highlights the Chicano Research Collection at the Hayden Library. Presented at the Western History Association Conference at St. Louis, Missouri.
Marín explains the origins of her work as an historian and as an archivist at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. Her history begins with her father's World War II letters and her mother's childhood toy, a magnet given to her by her mother in 1926.
Esau Muñoz descends from the Mexican Perez family on his mother's side and from Spanish refugees fleeing the persecution of the Jews by the Holy Inquisition on his father's side.
A brutal, senseless murder occurs in Casa Grande, Arizona in 1933. Two young Mexican-American boys are arrested, tried, and die side by side in the gas chamber at the Arizona State Prison in Florence in 1934.
Personal Name(s)
Faux, Pat (Patricia Ruth Steinko), 1936-2013 (Author)
Panel presentation delivered at the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project, 10th anniversary dinner and Korean and Vietnam War-era symposium held at the University of Texas, Austin.
Personal Name(s)
Vélez-Ibañez, Carlos G., 1936- (Author)
Suarez, Gene (Eugene), 1931-
Romero, Gilberto Vasquez, 1929-
Fisher, Jimmie (William James), 1927-2012
Geographic Name(s)
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
In 1999, Mexican American residents in Hayden, Arizona filed a lawsuit against the American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) citing high cancer rates and deaths due to arsenic poisioning, sulfuric acids, and lead pollution in their community. In 2009, residents still await environmental justice, cleanup and a resolution to that lawsuit.
The Women's Auxiliary was formed in Phoenix in 1948. Since then, they have kept traditions alive, yet fomented the changes needed to better lives through community service and activism. They fought against the racism, discrimination, & school segregation of their children in Phoenix. They remain active today. This is their tribute.
The Cara Mia Theatre Company presents its original play Crystal City 1969 at the Latino Cultural Center. The play commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Chicano student walkout in Crystal City, Texas.
In the mid-twentieth century, Mexican Americans adopted restrictionism in pursuit of U.S. civil equality and economic justice. This essay examines the controversy of this position as illustrated by the response to an academic study of undocumented labor in the early 1950s. Note page 304: the sign We Serve Whites Only: No Spanish or Mexicans. Mexican American claims to Whiteness were futile.
The Mexican Revolution caused chaos along the U.S.-Mexico Border, forcing the U.S. to send the army to the region in order to enforce neutrality laws. The experiences of the Tenth U.S. Cavalry demonstrate the difficulties the army faced.
Personal Name(s)
Work, David (Author)
Bliss, Tasker Howard, 1853-1930
Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948
Villa, Pancho, 1878-1923
Brown, W. C. (William Carey), 1854-1939
Geographic Name(s)
Mexican-American Border Region
Subject(s)
African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century
Quezada served as a Mexican Vice-Counsel in Arizona, Missouri, and California during the periods of 1957 to 1964. While in Washington, D.C., he taught Spanish to Senator Barry Goldwater and his staff and later taught at Pima Community College in Tucson. His collection consists of his own literary writings, poetry, and his personal memoirs. Included in his collection are his original Vice-Counsel certificates.
Veronica Castillo provides a good historical perspective of her family and their contributions to the history of in Tempe, Phoenix, and in Arizona. She is especially proud of her aunt, Rebecca Muñoz Gutierrez and her uncle, Rosalio Muñoz, and their roles as student activists and educators in the period of the 1930s and early 1940s and their work with the Mexican American student organization at Arizona State Teachers College, Los Conquistdores.
The author examines the theme of gender within the context of a Chicana labor history. Chicanas look to unions to create change in their wages and in their work place.
Mexican American women have greatly influenced the history of Tucson, Arizona. In her presentation, Christine Marin pays tribute to five of them. Their work and lives personify the role of women in our state's history.
Chicanas continue to struggle to overcome sexism, gender discrimination, sexual harassment, wage inequities, lack of respect, and no recognition for their hard work.
The story of a 75-year-old woman from Superior, Arizona reveals a life of hardship, struggle, work and sacrifice to raise her family during the period of the late 1930s and 1940s.
When Cecilia Esquer asked her Superior High school counselor for help in applying to Arizona State University in 1960, the counselor suggested that Cecilia was not college material because she is a Mexican American. Using rich material gathered in oral history interviews with family members and her parents, Cecilia's story is one of racism, discrimination, school segregation, struggle, and overcoming numerous challenges to become an attorney, educator, and a determined woman of unmeasurable success. This autobiography was prepared in 1972 for a course taught by Professor Manuel P. Servín at Arizona State University called The Mexican American Experience. ***NOTE: MOST INTERVIEWS ARE IN SPANISH. NO TRANSLATIONS.
Personal Name(s)
Esquer, Cecilia Teyechea Denogean de, 1942- (Author)
Teyechea, Maria (Maria Jesus Reel), 1894-1999
Corona, Consuelo
Denogean, Bertina T. (Bertina Chavez Teyechea), 1918-1985
The so-called notorious Chacon has been the subject of many early Arizona and Mexican stories. Augustine Chacon's story of crime is mixed with folklore and mystery and the criminal element that captured the attention of Arizona's early writers.
A manuscipt prepared for Prof. Chris Smith's class, HIS 513: American Historiograpy in 1979. Christine Marín explains that Servín and McWilliams apply their own individual regional interpretations in order to explain the historical and cultural development of the California-Arizona-Sonoran regions. As social historians, Servín and McWilliams have contributed to Mexican American history in the Southwest. Servín exposes the Spanish heritage and myth of the Spanish-Speaking of the Southwest. McWilliams exposes the dangers of racism against Mexicans and in the Southwest.
A historical biography of the life and work of Dr. Christine Marín, Archivist and Historian at Arizona State University Library in Tempe. Marin's legacy is the Chicano Research Collection and archives at the Hayden Library, from 1970 to 2010.
SER, Jobs for Progress, Inc., is a national private non-profit organization founded in 1964 to provide education, job skills training, literacy, and employment to the economically disadvantaged. SER's ultimate goal is to place individuals into productive employment. It is governed by a volunary Board of Directors from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the American G.I. Forum.
The Chicano Research Collection, housed in the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the Hayden Library at Arizona State University in Tempe is a tool that advances the Chicano/a community and legitimizes the Chicano/a experience. This archival repository is an extension of the Chicano/a Movement of the Civil Rights era of the 1970s.
Photocopies of bilingual (English-Spanish) issues of El Paisano for the year 1968. The newspaper became the voice of the Mexican American, or Chicano, farm worker in Maricopa County and voiced their concerns over poor wages, inadequate working conditions, poverty, racism and discrimination, civil rights, labor unions, and the Chicano movement.
Some years ago, 2nd Street, Silvis, Illinois was just a dirt road nestled in this community. Thanks to the work of Joe Terronez, in 1969, 2nd Street was renamed Hero Street, USA. It has developed into one of the finest veterans' memorial park in the country. The street, or 2nd street, or Second Street, contributed more men, for its area of size, to military service in two wars (World War II and Korea) than any other place of comparable size in the United States. Since the beginning of World War II, there have been eighty (80) sons of twenty-two (22) Mexican-American families on Hero Street sent to war. All received the Purple Heart for bravery, with eight (8) dying in the line of duty. They will forever be remembered on Hero Street, USA, in Silvis, Illinos.
Gutierrez talks about the formation of the Arizona State University student organization known as the Mexican American Student Organization (MASO) during the Chicano movementon the Arizona State University campus.
A Mexican-American woman, born in 1940, recalls her family's journey from Chihuahua, Mexico to El Paso, Texas and then on to Harrington, Kansas and Miami, Arizona. She worked as a seamstress, fruit picker, and became a cosmetologist. The interview was conducted by Mark Rivera.
In the 1940s, a Tolleson police officer deliberately murdered Ignacio Fontes Ruiz in a tragic case of mistaken identity. Police brutality against Mexican Americans was a common practice in Tolleson, according to the author.
A 12-year old participant in ASU's Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program writes an account of her family's History. In 1862, the Juan Baca family founded the area now called Springerville, Arizona.
A 15-year-old participant in ASU's Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program writes an account of her family history. She explains how her family settled in La Victoria, or Victory Acres, in Tempe in 1945 and discusses the racism and discrimination faced by Mexican Americans in the Mesa schools and community. She recalls a family story of Half a Blanket, a metaphor for death.
As part of his dissertation, Esobedo interviews Christine Marín. Marín recounts her own family history in Globe, Arizona. The series of interviews with Marín reveals a history in Globe, Arizona, with Marín's story full of examples of cultural diversity, racism, labor unionism, political activism, and education.
Andy and Delia Bernal presented this speech to the Gilbert Historical Society on May 29, 2010. Jerry Talamante is a descendent of the family of Ramon and Clara Granillo Bernal, as is Andy Bernal. In his speech, Talamante calls for an end to segregation and discrimination against minorities and envisions a world without prejudice and hypocrisy.
The Tiburcio and Manuela Sotelo family arrived in Tempe, Arizona in 1871. Their descendants helped Tempe thrive and develop, as told in this family history.
Personal Name(s)
Canchola, Esther Margaret Olivas Carrillo, 1934- (Author)
The Holy Cross of Globe was placed into the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. Since 1936, the cross, which is 18 feet tall and eight feet wide, has stood on a hiltop in Ruiz Canyon and served as an historic example of Mexican, Mexican American, and Catholic influences in Globe. Also included are National Register of Historic Places registration forms.
Photographs of the Holy Cross of Globe can be found in the Christine Marin Photograph Collection (MP CM–113: 1-12).
Burruel provides a lengthy and historical perspective of the contributions of Mexicans and Mexican Americans to the development of Scottsdale, Arizona, sometimes called Escatel by the Mexicanos. His narrative discusses the lives of pioneer Mexican families and a way of life that no longer exists. Modernity in Scottsdale brought the destruction of the homes and businesses of these Mexican families. Little has been written on this topic. Information was gathered through oral history interviews with families and their descendents and unpublished histories written by those families. No footnotes are provided in Burruel's manuscript.
