| Title |
Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 3, numbers 22 through 30 |
| Alternative Title |
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Córdova, Dragerton, Utah: an interview by Vicente Mayer and Bernice Martínez [no date]; José Fidel Martínez, Midvale, Utah: an interview by Vicente Mayer and Bernice Martínez [June 8, 1972]; Mrs. Eduviges S. García, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by JoAnn Gallegos, Katarina Trujillo and Bernice Martínez, June 12, 1972; Clorinda Córdova, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Bernice Martínez & Katarina Trujillo, June 13, 1972; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Robles, Dragerton, Utah: an interview by Margie Archuletta and Vince Mayer, June 14, 1972; José Marcos Olivas, San Luis [i.e., Old San Acacio], Colorado: an interview by John R. Tapia, August 12, 1973 [in Spanish]; Mike Meléndez, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Kathy Trujillo and JoAnn Gallegos, June 15, 1972; Mrs. Bertha Amador Mayer, Bountiful, Utah: an interview by Margie Archuletta and Bernice Martínez, June 14, 1972 |
| Creator |
Córdova, Richard, 1935- ; Martínez, José Fidel, 1909- ; García, Mrs. Eduviges S., 1904- ; Córdova, Clorinda, 1935- ; Robles, Albert, 1906- ; Olivas, José Marcos, 1882- ; Meléndez, Mike, 1946- ; Amador Mayer, Bertha, 1912- |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center; Mayer, Vincent, 1944- ; Martínez, Bernice; Tapia, John Reyna; Gallegos, JoAnn; Trujillo, Katarina; Archuletta, Margie |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1972-06-08; 1972-06-12; 1972-06-13; 1972-06-14; 1972-06-15; 1973-08-12 |
| Date Digital |
2015-01-15 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ ; Dragerton, Carbon County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5538330/ ; East Carbon City, Carbon County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5538668/ ; Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5771826/ ; San Acacio, Costilla County, Colorado, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5437633/ |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Colorado--History; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Biography; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Social conditions; Mexican Americans--Utah--History; Mexican Americans--Utah--Biography; Mexican Americans--Utah--Social conditions; Chicano movement--Utah; Chicano movement--Colorado |
| Keywords |
Miners; Coal mines; Discrimination; Great Depression; Ethnic relations; Chicanos; Farm labor; Agricultural laborers; Railroad workers; Mexican Revolution; Mexican traditions; SOCIO; Catholic Church; Guradalupe Mission; Mexican American children--Education |
| Description |
Transcript of interviews held in 1972 and 1973 at Salt Lake City, Bountiful, Midvale, and Dragerton [East Carbon City], Utah, and Old San Acacio, Colorado with various Hispanic residents of Utah: Richard Córdova (b. 1935); José Fidel Martínez (b. 1909); Mrs. Eduviges S. García (b. 1904); Clorinda Córdova (b. 1935); Albert Robles (b. 1906); José Marcos Olivas (1882); Mike Meléndez (b. 1946); and Mrs. Bertha Amador Mayer (b. 1912). From: Spanish Speaking Peoples in Utah, oral histories, Interviews no. 22 - 30 |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| 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/s6cg1dtv |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans--Biography; Mexican Americans--Social conditions; Chicano movement |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1039558 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cg1dtv |
| Title |
Page 285 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1039556 |
| OCR Text |
Show INTERVIEW: Mayer Page 36 with the guy. But they never did, and I'm thankful for that. They didn't make themselves criminals because they could have killed him. But they never did, nobody, everytime they saw him they turned, they'd go on the other side of the sidewalk, they would have tried they would have liked to do something to him, but then they had their families and everythimg and they thought better and I'm sure thankful they never. Up to know he's still alive the fellow and that was the cause of the death of my brother. BM: Was there very many incidents like that with the police with other Mexicans on the West Side? MM: In a way there was, they used to have fights all the time and things like that. But in those years I knew a fellow that killed a policeman, that was before we came here just a few years before we came here and he had a mother and that poor mother she sold things to save her son because he had killed an American, a woman or a police or something, I can't remember well, anyway he was killed at the penitentiary this Mexican fellow~ There wasn't too many really too many incidents for being so many people, but there were few. But then he killed and my brother never killed anybody, he just shot him, nicked him and didn't even, he thought he killed him while he was dying he said all I can say is he's gone too, but he wasn't, he was very much alive. And he died thinking that this other guy was gone, but of course, he's been punished when he killed that other fellow, he was punished pretty bad. But now he's |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cg1dtv/1039556 |
