| Title |
Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 11, numbers 112 through 120 |
| Alternative Title |
Mr. Bill L. Chacon, Moab, Utah: an interview by Greg Coronado, July 15, 1973; Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Ellis, Moab, Utah: an interview by Bernice Martinez and Eva Natividad, July 13, 1973; Jose R. Sanchez and Mrs. Pilar Sanchez, Moab, Utah: an interview by Greg Coronado, July 14, 1973; Bill Gonzalez, Monticello, Utah: an interview by Bernice Martinez, Eva Natividad, and Greg Coronado, July 14, 1973; Mrs. Beatrice Garcia Luckinbill, Mrs. Rosalie Garcia Robertson, Moab, Utah: an interview by Greg Coronado, July 15, 1973; Mr. Richard Garcia, Moab, Utah: an interview by Greg Coronado, July 13, 1973; Mr. and Mrs. Jose Aurelo Maestas, Moab, Utah: an interview by Eva Natividad and Bernice Martinez, July 14, 1973; Mr. Greg Hernandez, Moab, Utah: an interview by Gregory Coronado [July 14, 1973]; Pablo Baltazar, Corinne, Utah: an interview by Greg Coronado and Phil Notarianni, August 15, 1974 |
| Creator |
Chacon, Bill L., 1935- ; Ellis, Vicki, 1948- ; Ellis, Boyd Dean; Sanchez, Jose R.; Sanchez, Pilar, 1933- ; Gonzalez, Bill, 1935- ; Luckinbill, Beatrice Garcia, 1919-2007; Robertson, Rosalie Garcia, 1910- ; Garcia, Richard, 1937- ; Maestas, Jose Aurelo, 1922-2012; Maestas, Lena; Hernandez, Greg; Baltazar, Pablo, 1896- |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center; Martínez, Bernice; Coronado, Greg, 1946-2012; Natividad, Eva; Nortarianni, Phil |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1973-07-13; 1973-07-14; 1973-07-15; 1974-08-15 |
| Date Digital |
2015-01-15 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Moab, Grand County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5543307/ ; Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/8604824/ ; Monticello, San Juan County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5543377/ ; Corinne, Box Elder County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5773230/ |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Utah--History; Mexican Americans--Utah--Biography; Mexican Americans--Utah--Social conditions; Chicano movement--Utah |
| Keywords |
Miners; Discrimination; Great Depression; Ethnic relations; Chicanos; Farm labor; Agricultural laborers; Railroad workers; Mexican traditions; SOCIO; Catholic Church; Mexican immigrants; Mexican American children--Education |
| Description |
Transcript of interviews held in 1973 with several (mostly Hispanic) residents of Utah: Bill L. Chacon (b. 1935), Mr. and Mrs. Boyd and Vicki Ellis; Jose R. Sanchez and wife Pilar (b. 1933); Mrs. Beatrice Garcia Luckinbill (b. 1919) and Mrs. Rosalie Garcia Robertson (b. 1910); Mr. Richard Garcia; Mr. and Mrs. Jose Aurelo Maestas (b. 1922) and wife Lena, all of Moab, Utah; Bill Gonzalez (b. 1935) of Monticello, Utah; and Pablo Baltazar (b. 1896) of Corinne, Utah. Some interviews are in Spanish |
| 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/s6bg4cst |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans--Biography; Mexican Americans--Social conditions; Chicano movement |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1039931 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bg4cst |
| Title |
Page 103 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1039691 |
| OCR Text |
Show INTERVIEW: Sanchez Page 6 PS: much coal anymore and he had to find something else to support us and so he came down here to the potash mine in Moab, and this is where we've been for thirty years. GC: Okay, and what year did you get married? PS: '51. GC: '51. What got you involved in Socio? PS: Well, just trying to do something to make it better for the Mexican-Americans here in this town. Because, you know, there's kind of a, it's not an outright prejudice here in this town. I mean, they'll let you live and work and so forth, but if you're not a real good upstanding Mormon it's kind of hard to get a job. And lately it's gotten better, I mean, it's a lot better for ... I don't know ... you might say that I'm a little bit prejudiced too because now I'm head maid here for TraveLodge and so I'll hire Mexicans and give the girls a chance, but ... there's not, there's still not really too much for Mexicans around here ... unless they're maybe they have, oh, you know, college backgrounds or something like that. Hard to get a job around here. GC: Now, how did you know of Socio? How did you first learn of Socio? PS: I had heard of it through, what's his name? Salas, Victor Salas? Is it Victor? Julian Salas, and he had ... I really don't know, I guess they had started a chapter in Salt Lake and then we heard about it down here, and so we got together. I talked to Bill about it, and we thought maybe this would be a good thing to get down here, and see if we could do something with the Mexican- |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bg4cst/1039691 |
