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The transcripts for interviews 55-68 have been digitized and are available online. Please scroll through the digitized bound book for any of the following interviews: Orlando Rivera, Pete Archuleta, Ysauro and Ignacia Bustillos, Mr. and Mrs. Teodolo Anion Ramos and Alice Ramos, Mrs. J. F. Martinez, Cipriano Orona, Celia Vasquez Larson, and Robert Nieves.

Scope and Contents Background, working on the railroad, working conditions, wages and working hours, education, Chicano movement, discrimination, Desidero Llegas (grandfather), Alianza Hispano Americana (Mexican organization in Lordsville 1928), discussion on the word Chicano. Interviewed by Greg Coronado in Whitter, California. 29 pages. Mexican culture, the Brown Berets, working on the railroad, Mormon bishop, Mexican attitudes, Mexican Unions CROM, education and acculturation, discussion on the...

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Biographical background, origin (Clearfield, Utah, 1928), background of Mrs. Larson's parents, Mexicans working on the railroad, Depression, education, activities in school, buying a home in Clearfield, college education, Spanish-speaking people in Davis County, churches in Davis County, children's education, social activities, old Mexican customs, discussion on Chicano movement. Interviewed by Mae Barela in Clearfield, Utah. 33 pages.

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See box six, folder fourteen.

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Biographical background, origin (Puerto Rico, 1919), involvement with SOCIO, education, employment, legal aid, welfare, job discrimination, structure of SOCIO, housing, goals of SOCIO. Interviewed by Donald Strauss in Salt Lake City, Utah. 13 pages.

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See box six, folder eight.

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See box six, folder eight.

Scope and Contents Biographical background, origin Mr. Gonzalez (Jalisco, Mexico 1907), working on father's farm as a youth, revolution, working for Sur Pacific Company in El Paso, working for the railroad in San Francisco, working for the water service in Los Angeles, mining in Yuma, Arizona, relationship among different nationalities, working for National Tunnel Mines in Bingham (1928), working on a farm in California during the Depression, living conditions in Bingham, social activities in Bingham,...

Scope and Contents Biographical background, origin (Sonora, Mexico, 1899), education, working on the railroad track in California, working in the mines in Nevada, move to Bingham (1923), woring in the mines at Bingham, working with other nationalities, discrimination experiences, conditions in Bingham in 1923, background of wife, mining in Bingham, different nationalities in Bingham, living in a company house, influx of Mexicans during WWII, discussion on word "Chicano", opinion of Caesar Chavez, law, Mexican...

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Biographical background, origin (Michoacan, Mexico, 1903), the effect of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, immigration into the United States, settling in Utah, differences among Mexican-American people, Mormon convert, discussion on the word "Chicano", Mexican civic center, Mexican consul, superstitions, customs and manners. Spanish language transcript. Interviewed by Bernice Martinez and Margie Archuletta in Salt Lake City, Utah. 27 pages.

Scope and Contents Origen (Nuevo Mexico), sus padres, sus abuelos, cuentos de su abuelo, La Guerra Civil, Guerras con Los Indios, educacion, aventura a otros estados, aprendiendo hablar Ingles, La Depresion, empleos, Borreguero, Molino de Uranium, descriminacion. Spanish language transcript. Interviewed by Katarina Trujillo in Heber City, Utah. 23 pages. Origin, parents, grandparents, stories told by grandfather, Civil War, Indian Wars, education, seeking jobs in other states, learning to speak...

Scope and Contents Origin, parents, grandparents, stories told by grandfather, Civil War, Indian Wars, education, seeking jobs in other states, learning to speak English, The Depression, employment, sheep herder, uranium mill, discrimination. English translation. Interviewed by Katarina Trujillo in Heber City, Utah. 22 pages. Discrimination (continued), employment in other states, discrimination, World War II, The Depression, the C.C. Camps, superstitions of New Mexico, spirits of the dead, saints,...

Scope and Contents Biographical background, origin (Valdez, Colorado, 1911), biographical background of father, coal mining in Colorado, Victor American Co. (1928), working for the Colorado Fuel and Iron at Crested Butte, moving to Utah, influx of Mexicans to Utah from surrounding states, treatment received while in Utah (discrimination), inspector for Kaiser Co., discrimination in schools, biographical background of wife, Ludlow Massacre, name prefers referring to racial origin, discussion on word, "Chicano",...

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Biographical background, origin (Santa Barbara, Mexico, 1900), working as a musician in Mexico, coming to the United States, working in the sugar beet fields in Montana, coal mining in Walsenburg, Colorado, mining strike in Walsenburg, Colorado (1923), acquiring a job in the Bingham Mines, working in the roundhouse in Salt Lake City, illness and hospitalization. Interviewed by Bernice Martinez and Margie Archuletta in Midvale, Utah. 24 pages.

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Biographical background, origin (Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico, 1900), Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa, immigrating to the United States, working as a janitor in a laundry, trouble with the law, traveling in the United States, thinning beets in Iowa, working for the Northwestern Cement Company. Interviewed by Bernice Martinez in Salt Lake City, Utah. 29 pages.