| Title |
Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 2, numbers 11 through 20 |
| Alternative Title |
Emilio Jaime Vasquez, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, February 28, 1971; Father Jerald Merrill, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, November 5 and 29 and December 31, 1971; Mrs. Lula C. Jácquez, Old San Acacio, Colorado, an interview by John R. Tapia; Mr. and Mrs. Enor Martínez, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Bernice Martínez [June 2, 1972]; Mike Meléndez, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by John Gallegos, Bernice Martínez, and Vincent Mayer, June 3, 1972; Mrs. María Feliz Martínez de Maestas, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Bernice Martínez and Mrs. Teodora Martínez, March 15, 1973 |
| Creator |
Vasquez, Emilio Jaime, 1931- ; Merrill, Jerald, 1924- ; J Jácquez, Lula C., 1919- ; Martínez, Enor, 1940- ; Martínez, Mrs. Enor, 1942- ; Meléndez, Mike, 1946- ; Martínez de Maestas, María Feliz, 1883- |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center; Mayer, Vincent, 1944- ; Martínez, Bernice; Tapia, John Reyna; Gallegos, John; Trujillo, Katarina; Martínez, Teodora |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1971-02-28; 1971-11-05; 1971-11-29; 1971-12-31; 1972-06-02; 1972-06-03; 1973-03-15; 1973-08-11 |
| Date Digital |
2015-01-15 |
| Spatial Coverage |
San Acacio, Costilla County, Colorado, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5437633/ ; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ |
| 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; Catholic Church--Clergy--Utah--Biography; Mexican American women--Utah |
| Keywords |
Migrant workers; Farm labor; Agricultural laborers; Discrimination; Catholic priests; Catholic Church; Guadalupe Mission; Guadalupe Center; Catholic traditions; SOCIO; Teachers; Head Start; Senior citizens; University of Utah; Mexican American college students; Shepherds |
| Description |
Transcript of interviews held in 1971, 1972, and 1973 at Salt Lake City and Old San Acacio, Colorado, with various Hispanic residents of Utah: Emilio Jaime Vasquez (b. 1907); Mrs. Lula C. Jácquez (of Old San Acacio, b. 1919); Mr. and Mrs. Enor Martínez (b. 1940 and 1942); Mike Meléndez (b. 1946); and Mrs. María Feliz Martínez de Maestas (b. 1883); also two interviews with Catholic priest Father Jerald Merrill (b. 1924), who worked with Hispanic parishioners. From: Spanish Speaking Peoples in Utah, oral histories, Interviews no. 11 - 13, 16, 18 - 20 |
| 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/s6h43g65 |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans--Biography; Mexican Americans--Social conditions; Mexican American women; Chicano movement; Clergy (Canon law) |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1040760 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6h43g65 |
| Title |
Page 27 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1040493 |
| OCR Text |
Show INTERVIEW: Emilio Jaime Vasquez Page 24 EV: with them because most of your Puerto Ricans, they use a lot of slang and a lot of bad words. Where your Mexicans from Old Mexico they were more, they had more respect for ----for individuals, you know, and they never use a harsh word against anyone because they respect people that I've ---the way I, I see it anyway. And these Puerto Ricans, I guess a lot of them were just literally ignorant people in the matter with schooling they had no respect for no one. And over there I remember that on the tri-gang, when I was there with them, you'd turn around and there'd be a big fight resulting o,ver there. Some poor Mexican was getting, getting beat up an~ just---he didn't like what the Puerto Rican to tell him. VM: Yes. EV: And they'd see them up town---in the town at night, why, in the dances they---they were always ready to tear down the Mexicans because they didn't like them, and the same way was with the Mexicans with Puerto Ricans. But now that the Puerto Ricans have thinned down to about,~---there's only about ten or twelve ah, Puerto Rican families that are left now, that they---they finally deci---they'd settle down, nncl thC!y cnn p;oL nlonp; pr n~ y, now, nur: H Wllfl C(llll"c n--quite a---- |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6h43g65/1040493 |
