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Mexican Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar

 Collection
Identifier: SR12250
Abstract

Oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar conducted by Sankar Raman in 2017 for The Immigrant Story. Aguilar is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who came to the United States with her family when she was 5. She is a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and earned a Ph.D. at the University of California Merced.

Dates: 2017

Oral history interview with Jaime Miranda

 Collection
Identifier: SR 12284
Abstract

Oral history interview with Jaime Miranda conducted by Keven Salazar on August 1, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Miranda immigrated to the United States from Mexico around 1985. He studied to become a teacher, but changed his career trajectory and opened the M & M Marketplace in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Dates: 2018 August 1

Oral history interview with Brenda Neri-Wong

 Collection
Identifier: SR12287
Abstract

Oral history interview with Brenda Neri-Wong conducted by Sankar Raman and Briana Ybanez on August 22, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Neri-Wong came to the United States from Mexico as a child to seek treatment for a blood disorder. She later became a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient.

Dates: 2018 August 22

Stella Maris House collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1585
Abstract The collection consists of printed material, correspondence, and administrative, financial, and legal records created and collected by the Stella Maris House, a Portland, Oregon-based social justice group, during the course of its work. The collection demonstrates the local evolution of issues key to the history of the United States during the 1960s. Over a third of the collection is dedicated to Oregon's migrant labor rights movement; it also features materials documenting the area's civil...
Dates: 1940-1973; Majority of material found within 1960-1972

Valley Migrant League photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 74
Abstract

Collection consists of photographs taken primarily by staff of the Valley Migrant League for their program newspaper, "Opportunity News." Subjects depicted include VML-sponsored adult education and child care programs, working and living conditions for agricultural migrant laborers, labor organizing activities, and community events.

Dates: 1965-1968