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    • Castillo Velasquez Family History Part 1

    • Castillo Velasquez Family History Part 1

    • Castillo Velasquez, Carmen

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.)--History; Mexicans--Arizona; Mexicans--Attitudes; Mexicans--Employment--Arizona;

    • Part 1: Carmen's parents, Ernest and Antonio Castillo, came to McNary from Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1949 to work as a welder on the trains for the Southwest Forest Industries. Carmen was just entering school. She describes the layout of the...
    • Castillo Velasquez Family History Part 2

    • Castillo Velasquez Family History Part 2

    • Castillo Velasquez, Carmen

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.)--History; Mexicans--Arizona; Mexicans--Attitudes; Mexicans--Employment--Arizona;

    • Part 2: Carmen Castillo married Rudy Velasquez at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in McNary. Rudy is older than Carmen, so had already been to the Korean War when they met on a blind date. Rudy's family had been living at Fort Wingate, New Mexico...
    • E.D. Ring, Superintendent, Department of Public Instruction

    • E.D. Ring, Superintendent, Department of Public Instruction

    • Conway, Joe

    • Attorney General's Opinions--Arizona

    • Opinion 43-084. 1 page (PDF version) file size: 132.70 KB. Letter to E.D. Ring, Superintendent of Public Instruction, stating that the children of Indians and alien Mexicans who are employed in industry within the school districts can go to...
    • Francisca Montoya: Farm Labor Union Organizer

    • Francisca Montoya: Farm Labor Union Organizer

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Labor union democracy--United States; Labor union democracy--United States--History; Labor union members, Hispanic American; Labor union members--History--20th century; Labor union members, Mexican American; Labor union members--North America;...

    • How Francisca Montoya, from a family of migrant agricultural workers, struggled to maintain a family, pursue an education, and remain actively committed to farm workers' rights.
    • Graciela Gil Olivarez: Government Official, Attorney, Activist

    • Graciela Gil Olivarez: Government Official, Attorney, Activist

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Latina; Copper miners--Arizona--Social conditions--20th century; Copper miners; Copper miners--Labor unions--Arizona; Copper miners, Mexican American; Bilingualism; Disc jockeys; Disc jockeys--Arizona--Phoenix; Disc jockeys--Biography;

    • Graciela Gil Olivarez grew up in a segregated mining town in Barcelona, Arizona and would rise to become Phoenix's first female disc jockey. Her capacity in radio gave her an opportunity to speak on behalf of destitute Mexican American families,...
    • Romana Acosta Bañuelos

    • Romana Acosta Bañuelos

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Pan American National Bank; Food production and natural resources; Mexican Americans; Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--History; Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century; Mexican Americans--Florida--Biography;

    • Daughter of an Arizona copper miner, Romana Acosta Bañuelos would go on to found Ramona's Mexican Food Products, Inc., the Pan-American National Bank, and later be appointed to serve as U.S. Treasurer by President Nixon.
    • Trinidad Meija Escalante Swilling: the Mother of Phoenix

    • Trinidad Meija Escalante Swilling: the Mother of Phoenix

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Swilling, Jack, 1830-1878. Swilling family; Phoenix (Ariz.. Phoenix (Ariz.)--History. Phoenix (Ariz.)--History--19th century. Canal construction.

    • Trinidad Escalante Swilling was born in Hermosillo, Mexico to a Spanish father and Mexican mother. After the death of her father, she and her mother would move to Tucson where Trinidad would marry Jack Swilling, a Confederate veteran of the Civil...
    • Plácida Elvira García Smith

    • Plácida Elvira García Smith

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Theodore Roosevelt Dam (Ariz.); Salt River Project; Americanization; San Luis (Yuma County, Ariz.); University of Utah; University of California at Berkeley; League of United Latin American Citizens; United Service Organizations (U.S.);

    • Plácida Elvira García Smith’s place in Phoenix history is during post-World War I at Friendly House, established in 1920. Disturbed by the poverty and racism she witnessed within the Mexican and Mexican-American community in south Phoenix,...
    • Behind the camera

    • Behind the camera

    • Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Arizona -- Latino -- Veterans

    • Dr. Pete Dimas has created a documentary about Arizona Latino Veterans of the Second World War, and the formation of Post 41 to fight segregation.
    • Faces of Post 41: The 1950s

    • Faces of Post 41: The 1950s

    • Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Arizona -- Latino -- Veterans

    • An account of the Arizona Latino contribution to the Korean War, and the growing influence of American Legion Post 41 in its fight against segregation in Schools of Arizona.
    • Faces of Post 41: The 1940s

    • Faces of Post 41: The 1940s

    • Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Arizona -- Latino -- Veterans

    • Latinos contribute to World War II, from Luzon and Corregidor to Normandy and Germany.
    • Not So Easy, Tucson's 13th Infantry Batallion Marine Reserves

    • Not So Easy, Tucson's 13th Infantry Batallion Marine Reserves

    • Sanderson, Charles

    • Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean War, 1950-1953--Participation, American; Korean War, 1950-1953--Participation, Mexican American; Military Service; U.S. Marines

    • The Korean War is sometimes called, "The Forgotten War." It would be uncounscionable to forget the bravery and sacrifices of those Americans who served their country in a land so far away. These are the stories of Company E of the 13th Infantry...
    • Legacy of Courage The Story of Arthur Van Haren, Jr.

    • Legacy of Courage The Story of Arthur Van Haren, Jr.

    • Renolds, Jean; Raul Castro Institute; Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • World War II; Mexican America Military Service; U.S Navy; Military Aviation

    • Arthur joined the ranks of the few Mexican American men from Phoenix to be given public acclaim as decorated war heroes, although many from the city’s Mexican community served in World War II with distinction. Other young men who received public...
    • The front doors to the Arizona Military Museum.

    • The front doors to the Arizona Military Museum.

    • Abodeely, Joseph

    • Arizona Military Museum; Military Museums--Arizona--History

    • ARIZONA MILITARY HISTORY

      Other than the indigenous inhabitants who populated what is now Arizona in prehistoric times, the Spanish Conquistadors were the first "military" to explore what is now Arizona in the 16th century. In their quest...
    • U.S.--Mexican War Mexican soldier.

    • U.S.--Mexican War Mexican soldier.

    • Abodeely, Joseph

    • Arizona Military Museum; Military Museums--Arizona--History

    • TUCSON PRESIDIO AND MEXICAN WAR

      In 1821, Mexico won its independence from Spain after a decade of war. The revolution had bankrupted the national treasury, and funds that had supported missions, presidios, and Apache peace...
    • Indian Wars display.

    • Indian Wars display.

    • Abodeely, Joseph

    • Arizona Military Museum; Military Museums--Arizona--History

    • Indian Wars in Arizona Territory

      The stage line brought many more whites through the Pima villages, but the Civil War had an even greater effect. Far from the center stage, the major impact of the war in Arizona slowed the pace of white...
    • Pima soldier of the 1st Arizona Volunteer Infantry.

    • Pima soldier of the 1st Arizona Volunteer Infantry.

    • Abodeely, Joseph

    • Arizona Military Museum; Military Museums--Arizona--History

    • 1st Arizona Volunteer Infantry

      Carleton's California Volunteers established Camp Lowell in Tucson in 1862 after Captain Sherod Hunter evacuated his Confederates. They also founded Fort Bowie near Apache Pass and Fort Whipple near...
    • On the Mexican Border display.

    • On the Mexican Border display.

    • Abodeely, Joseph

    • Arizona Military Museum; Military Museums--Arizona--History

    • ON THE BORDER

      Between the fall of 1910 and the summer of 1916, Mexico had been embroiled in a violent revolution, with opposing political and military forces struggling for control of the country. In 1913, United States President William...

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