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1. Interview of Rossana Perez

Topic:
Social Movements
Latina and Latino History
Central Americans in Southern California
Community Activism
Length:
9 hrs
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series of interviews includes activists who were involved in founding and sustaining organizations in the Central American community in the 1980s. It examines the participants' activism and political persecution in Central America, their immigration to the U.S., and the ways they organized t...
Biographical Note:
Immigrant from El Salvador who worked with El Rescate and Clínica Monseñor Oscar A. Romero

2. Interview of Martha Palacios

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Chicano Movement
Length:
3.5 hrs
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their experience
Biographical Note:
An organizer and leader of the Chicana/o student movement at CSULA from 1969 to 1973, and one of

3. Interview of Lydia Lopez

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Chicano Movement
Length:
10 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their experience
Biographical Note:
resettlement of refugees from Central America.

4. Interview of Félix Gutiérrez

Topic:
Social Movements
Latina and Latino History
Chicano Movement
Length:
9.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their experience
Biographical Note:
University of Southern California professor of journalism and communication. University of Southern California professor of american studies and ethnicity. First executive director of the California Chicano News Media Association and senior vice president of the Freedom Forum and the Newseum.

5. Interview of Joe Razo

Topic:
Social Movements
Latina and Latino History
Chicano Movement
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their experience
Biographical Note:
Member in the Chicano Blowouts. Co-editor, writer, and photographer for La Raza, a Chicano-movement newspaper.

6. Interview of Rosalio Muñoz

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Chicano Movement
Length:
25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their experience
Biographical Note:
Mexican American activist and co-chair of the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War.

7. Interview of Ramón Holguín

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Chicano Movement
Length:
15 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their experience
Biographical Note:
Member of the Chicano Moratorium Committee, and involved in the creation of the Chicano Studies Department at California State University, Northridge.

8. Interview of Raúl Ruíz

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Chicano Movement
Length:
15 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their experience
Biographical Note:
Journalist, photographer, and editor for La Raza, a Chicano-movement newspaper. Ran for office as a candidate of the first and only Mexican American political party, La Raza Unida Party.

9. Interview of Roger Wood

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Chicano Movement
Length:
7.5 hrs
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their experience
Biographical Note:
One of the central clergy in the Church of the Epiphany in Lincoln Heights during the 1960s and 1970s. Played a contributing role in the church's involvement with the Chicana/o Movement.

10. Interview of Ruth Robinson Rivera

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Chicano Movement
Length:
4.5 hrs
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their experience
Biographical Note:
Organizer with United Farm Workers alongside Cesar Chavez and instructor for teatro campesino courses in Mexican American studies department at San Diego Sate University. Later known as Taru Ruth Rivera