José Estéban Ortega on La Cucaracha
LHP_Intern2021-09-20T20:12:48+00:00Ortega talks about how La Cucaracha was founded, the different topics they covered and the various people and groups they worked with. Complete source here
“El Aguila: The Eagle”, written by migrant worker teens, p.1
LHP_Intern2021-06-08T05:15:43+00:00El Aguila, written by migrant worker teens, p. 1
Oral history interview, Ricardo and Anna Garcia, 1977 (audio and summary)
LHP_Intern2021-06-08T04:42:34+00:00Ricardo and Anna Garcia’s interviewed about their experiences being Latino students at a predominately white institution (PWI) link here
Summary: University of Colorado, difficulties of Latino students at; University students, involvement with migrant farmworkers; University housing, quonset huts; Boulder, hippies in; separation between University community and the Boulder community; Alvarado Village, low-income housing in Boulder; housing, low income; Head Start program (lots of information); Follow Through program (lots of information); education, concern with, by parents; health benefits; bilingual education; elementary school language instruction in 1960s; Boulder, Human Relations Commission; political involvement by Latinos
“Boulder’s Chicano Community,” 1978 KGNU radio interview
LHP_Intern2021-06-08T00:24:02+00:00Short radio interview about the founding and its work of the Boulder Chicano Community Project. This recording is of a KGNU radio interview by an unnamed person talking with Jesse Velez Lehmann, Manuel Arcadia, and Regina Vigil about the project “Boulder’s Chicano Community.” They talk about what the project had accomplished and some of its major findings, echoing the topics covered in the two films, “Los Inmigrantes” and “Boulder’s Chicano Community.”
The Boulder Hispanic Experience 1994 Video of “Los Inmigrantes” and a panel discussion
LHP_Intern2021-06-08T00:31:45+00:00Short film of a panel discussion based on the film Los Inmigrantes, 1994
Canyon Park renamed in Emma Gomez Martinez’s honor, 2013
LHP_Intern2021-06-08T00:16:31+00:00Short newspaper article from the Boulder Daily camera announcing the renaming of Canyon Park in honor of Emma Gomez Martinez
Los Inmigrantes 1979 Film
LHP_Intern2021-06-08T00:33:08+00:00Short film showing interviews of Boulder Chicanos, 1979
Boulder Chicano Community-1979 Film
LHP_Intern2021-06-08T00:34:21+00:00Short film on Boulder’s Chicano community , Boulder in the 1930s offered the chance for children to get some education and different kinds of jobs; neighborhood around Water + Goss Streets; migrant farm work in San Luis Valley, then in Boulder area; difficulty of attending a city school; isolation of Chicano families from mainstream Boulder life. Sequence of scenes and people