| Title |
Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 13, numbers 135 through 146 |
| Alternative Title |
Cornelio Candelaria, Old San Acacio, Colorado: an interview by John R. Tapia, August 10, 1973; Duván Luján, Genaro Court, New Mexico: an interview by Greg Coronado, August 5, 1973; Duván Luján, Albuquerque, New Mexico: an interview by Greg Coronado, August 5, 1973; Dr. Hector P. Garcia, Corpus Christi, Texas: an interview by Greg Coronado [August 10, 1973]; Ben Romero Sr., Fort Garland, Colorado: an interview by John R. Tapia, August 13, 1973 [in Spanish and English]; Ben Romero Sr., Fort Garland, Colorado: an interview by John R. Tapia, August 14, 1973 [in Spanish and English] |
| Creator |
Candelaria, Cornelio; Luján, Duván, 1919- ; Garcia, Hector P., -1996.; Romero, Ben, 1882- |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center; Coronado, Greg, 1946-2012; Tapia, John Reyna |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1973-08-05; 1973-08-10; 1973-08-13; 1973-08-14 |
| Date Digital |
2015-01-15 |
| Spatial Coverage |
San Luis, Costilla County, Colorado, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5437682/ ; San Acacio, Costilla County, Colorado, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5437633/ ; Fort Garland, Costilla County, Colorado, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5422141/ ; Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/4683416/ ; Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5454711/ ; Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5493811/ |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Colorado--History; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Biography; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Social conditions; Mexican Americans--Texas--History; Mexican Americans--Texas--Biography; Mexican Americans--Texas--Social conditions; Chicano movement--Texas; Chicano movement--Colorado; Chicano movement--New Mexico |
| Keywords |
Discrimination; Great Depression; Ethnic relations; Chicanos; Farm labor; Agricultural laborers; Railroad workers; Mexican Revolution; Mexican traditions; SOCIO; Catholic Church; Mexican immigrants; Mexican American children--Education; American G.I. Forum; Veterans |
| Description |
Transcripts of interviews held in 1973 with Cornelio Candelaria of Old San Acacio, Colorado; Dr. Hector P. Garcia of Corpus Christi, Texas, founder of the American G. I. Forum; and Ben Romero Sr., of Fort Garland, Colorado (in Spanish and English) |
| 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/s62z2w60 |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans--Biography; Mexican Americans--Social conditions; Chicano movement |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1039208 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62z2w60 |
| Title |
Page 97 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1039012 |
| OCR Text |
Show Interview; Duvan Lujan Page Six and ... this is another thing that I have been working on for quite some time, I think this is one of the reasons since I am talking about some of the programs I lead ... this is one of the reasons that the VOP Veterans Outreach Programs are quite mad at .me because I asked for $10,000 be set aside for the New Mexico funding that was going to be used in New Mexico, to use this money for a class action suit against the Veterans, of course there was a conflict of interest, but I think I made a group of enemies there, and I believed that the staff of the Veternas Outreach Program at least the •.. director has told other people in certain terms that he didn't like what I was doing, however that's beside the point, I think that if a man is really interested in helping the Veterans, this is it ... this is important a lot more important than interviewing the veteran and saying "Have you gone to the Veterans Administration?" ... see ... and so ... anyhow, in this G.I. Forum ... you know, we have been very much involved in political issues it's amazing •.. too many people may not realize ... but it's amazing the degree of confidence ... self confidence that you developed by the countership of many other man .•. you meet a lot of attorneys, a lot of businessmen, that get a kick a lot of their times ... I know some attorneys like Grege Coronado, Bob Sanchez, I think his name is from ... from up here in •.. I can't think of his name now, but several attorneys, |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62z2w60/1039012 |
