| Title |
Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10 |
| Alternative Title |
Jose Medel, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, October 9, 1970; Louis Amador, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vince Mayer, Greg Thompson and Floyd O'Neil, December 3 and 8, 1970; Mrs. Francis Yañez, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, May 21, 1971; Señor Santos Cabrerra, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, January 4, 1971; Mrs. Ellen Córdova, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Bernice Martínez, June 15, 1973; Mr. Francisco Solario, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Floyd A. O'Neil and Vincent Mayer, December 19, 1970; Jesús and Agapito Castillo, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, June 13, 1971 |
| Creator |
Medel, José, 1907- ; Amador, Louis, 1908- ; Yañez, Mrs. Francis, 1886- ; Cabrerra, Santos, 1886- ; Córdova, Ellen, 1904- ; Solario, Francisco, 1910- ; Castillo, Jesús, 1924- ; Castillo, Agapito, 1923- |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center; Mayer, Vincent, 1944- ; Thompson, Gregory C. (Gregory Coyne), 1943-; O'Neil, Floyd A.; Martínez, Bernice |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1970-10-09; 1970-12-03; 1970-12-08; 1970-12-19; 1971-01-04; 1971-05-21; 1971-06-13; 1973-06-15 |
| Date Digital |
2015-01-15 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Utah--History; Mexican Americans--Utah--Biography; Mexican Americans--Utah--Social conditions; Chicano movement--Utah |
| Keywords |
Migrant workers; Farm labor; Railroad workers; Mexican Americans; Mexican Revolution; Labor movement; Catholic Church; Guadalupe Mission; Miners; Utah Copper; Chicano; Mexican Civic Center; Mexican consuls; Discrimination; Mexican immigrants |
| Description |
Transcript of interviews held in 1970, 1971 and 1973 at Salt Lake City with various Hispanic residents of Utah: Jose Medel (b. 1907), Lous Amador (b. 1908); Mrs. Francis Yañez (b. 1886); Santos Cabrerra (b. 1886); Mrs. Ellen Córdova (b. 1904); Francisco Solario (b. 1910); ; Jesús and Agapito Castillo (b. 1923 and 1924). From: Spanish Speaking Peoples in Utah, oral histories, Interviews no. 1 - 7, 8 - 10 |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng; spa |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
For description of each interview, see: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv23580 |
| Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro 10 for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6mw46tt |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans--Biography; Mexican Americans--Social conditions; Chicano movement |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1038425 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mw46tt |
| Title |
Page 207 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1038300 |
| OCR Text |
Show I TERVIEW: Cordova Page 17 since my husband passed away say, 'You know, the Mexican people from New Mexico and from old Mexico just don't get along.' BM Do you know if his parents, were they born in New Mexico? His father? EC Yes, his father was. BM Grandparents, then? EC I think that it was his grandfather that came from Spain. Either his grandfather or great-grandfather. I wouldn't say for sure, but I know that his father was born in New Mexico. BM Some of the Mexicans, then, from Mexico were saying that they were Spanish? EC Well, they would call themselves Spanish. They wouldn't want to be called Mexicans. BM Did you notice any discrimination towards the Spanish-speaking, the Mexican at that time? Could you tell ... EC Oh, you mean from the American people? BM Yes. EC Oh yes, definitely yes. People would look down on them just like they were nothing really. I said at one time that if I was a Mexican person I would never hang around Salt Lake. Never. That is, unless it was that way all over. But, they did, they looked down on them, you know. I even had one gentleman come to me after we opened the restaurant and he came down and he |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mw46tt/1038300 |
