Chicano/a Research Collection
This collection highlights photographs from the Chicano/a Research Collection. Collections are added as permissions are secured, and resources for digitization become available.
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- Creators: Quesada, Alicia Otilia, 1923-2020
- Creators: Chicano Media Productions (Tucson, Ariz.)
In this interview, Alicia Quesada discusses the Ocampo family's settlement in Wickenburg, Teodoro Ocampo's cattle ranch, her childhood memories, her family's involvement in the Wickenburg community, her professional life, her work to oppose the Gosnell land swap, and her interest in and efforts to preserve Arizona's Mexican-American history.
This three-part program traces Chicano heritage and influence in Arizona's history between the 1600s and the 1950s. It begins with a consideration of Mexican immigrants' role in pioneering Arizona's first non-Indigenous settlements, discusses these settlers' conflicts with Indigenous peoples and Anglo settlers, recounts Mexican-American contributions to Arizona's economic growth, chronicles rising racism towards, discrimination against, and segregation of Mexican-Americans, and finally studies Mexican-American work to secure equal rights.
Wickenburg, Arizona.
José and Francisca (Ocampo) Quesada are seated; standing (left to right) are Alice Quesada, Joséfina (Quesada) Alvarez, Dora Quesada, and Eugene Quesada. Tempe, Arizona.
Phoenix, Arizona.
Back row, 3rd from left, Maria Rodriguez; 5th from left, Juanita Casares. Front row, 2nd from left, Alicia Quesada. The Flamingo Club was initiated during the World War II period as a patriotic organization to support the war effort because Mexican American [?]. Flamingo Club, Westward Ho Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona.
Wickenburg, Arizona.