Heritage Colorado
Found in 1121 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Jose Barrerra, 2006 August 5, 2005 June 10
Oral history interview with Jose Barrerra, De donde eres: Cultural Origins of the Southern Colorado Latino/Hispanic Community Collection, Pikes Peak Library District
Oral History Interview with Jose Guevara Rodriguez, 02-05-12, 2006 November 16
Mr. Guevara Rodriguez grew up in Valle de Santiago Guanajuato. He worked as a bracero in Texas, California, Kansas City, and Montana; picking cotton, strawberries, corn, and harvesting lettuce, asparagas and sugar beet. Activities he did from 1949 to 1964.
Oral History Interview with José Ramirez
Member of Otomi Indian tribe biographical data, including his family and life in the tribe; joined the Mexican Army as a young man; the Diaz-Taft meeting in El Paso in 1909' the Mexican Revolution; El Paso and Ciudad Juárez in 1920; labor experiences in Texas, Michigan, and Illinois; the Escobar Revolution and the Cristero Revolt.
Oral History Interview with Jose Romero, 1978 May 23, 2006 November 16
Life in Mexico before the Mexican Revolution; his participation in the Revolution with Villa's army under Mart?n L?pez; work experiences in the United States; the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.
Oral History Interview with Jose Solano Ramirez, 2003 September 25, 2006 November 20
Mr. Solano was born on August 27, 1939 in Tilxapotla, Morelos. He grew up as a farmworker on his family's land. He has a basic formal education. He remembers discrimination that the braceros went through both in Mexico (Empale, Sonora) & in the US (Stockton). He experienced discrimination in church. He worked in California and Arizona.
Oral History Interview with Joseph, Ali, circa 1975, 2006 September 18
Ali Joseph served as School District 50 director of staff relations from 1976 to 1978. At that point he stepped into the post of superintendent. Joseph helped broker an agreement between the school board and the teachers union and spearheaded a $15 million bond issue in 1979 to renovate aging school buildings.
Oral History Interview with Josie Rivera, 2004 November 5, 2006 August 5
Interview with Josie Rivera from the De donde eres: Cultural Origins of the Southern Colorado Latino/Hispanic Community Collection.
Oral History Interview with Juan F. Jacquez, 1980 January 18, 2006 November 15
Extensive labor experiences, was deported on one occasion; suffered an accident while on the job; family problems after he obtained residency for his wife, bracero.
Oral History Interview with Juan Hernandez, 1978 August 20, 2006 November 16
Mexican Revolution, Battles of Zacatecas, Torreón, Camargo, the personalities of Villa, de Anda and Murguña; recollections of black American soldiers during the Revolutionary years.
Oral History Interview with June, Vi (#1), 2000 June 8, 2006 September 18
Interview with Vi June, former Westminster mayor about the city's water issues. Individuals of note mentioned in the interview: Ned Phye, Bill Francis, and Jack Winston. -- Water Rights -- Ned Phye -- Standley Lake -- Land Development -- Bill Francis -- Land Annexation
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