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ContributorsChávez, Gus (Director) / McGrew, Gustavo (Host) / Lancaster, Carol (Producer) / Marín, Christine (Author) / Chicano Media Productions (Tucson, Ariz.) (Contributor)
Created1985
Description
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.
ContributorsCantu, Inez (Inez Jones Gomez), 1911-1966 (Depicted) / Lerma, Bill (William Gracia), 1913-2008 (Depicted)
ContributorsCasado, Lucy (Lucy Garcia), 1926- (Depicted)
Created1979
ContributorsCasado, Lucy (Lucy Garcia), 1926- (Depicted)
Created1979
ContributorsCantu, Inez (Inez Jones Gomez), 1911-1966 (Depicted) / Alvarez, Joséfina (Joséfina Ocampo Quesada), 1920- (Depicted) / Wilson, Irma, 1895-1974 (Depicted) / Vasquez, Ida (Ida Morales), 1921- (Depicted) / Logan, Laura Mae (Laura Mae Hurtado), 1920-2013 (Depicted)