mexican american

Interior of Sweets Ballroom George Carlos is standing on stage holding and talking into a microphone. Unidentified man on the right. Carlos is the musical promoter who schedules the acts for...

Interior of Sweets Ballroom George Carlos is standing stage to the right with a microphone. Carlos is the musical promoter who schedules the acts for Sweets and MC's the shows.

Interior of Sweets Ballroom during grand ball. Sailors can be seen in the crowd. Written on back of photograph in blue ink: "Esta fotagraphia fire tomada en el Gran Gaile Social Mexicano, de...

Group portrait of braceros who were brought up during World War II to work on the Southern Pacific Railroad lines here in Oakland. Jose Cruz is kneeling in the front wearing a leather jacket.

Interior of Sweets Ballroom George Carlos is standing stage right with Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra playing for a crowd. Cugat is in the center in a striped suit playing a violin. Carlos is the...

Photograph of three latino male farmworkers in a lettuce field. The man in the center is holding up several bunches of lettuce. Behind them are other workers in the distance and a large pick-up...

Caption reads: "Chavez 1968 Hunger Strike -- Cesar Chavez, farm labor leader, center, eats a piece of bread to end his 25-day fast while Sen. Robert F. Kennedy looks on in Delano, Calif. in a 1968...

Flag. Description: Huelga Flag. No pole. "Huelga. UFW AFL-CIO." From the History Information Station: Object: Red "Huelga" banner with white medallion in center. History:...

Photogaph. Description: Group of children

(D. Curry, 10/28/99) Photograph is a group portrait, most likely a class picture, of a group of children, around age 8 or so. It is a very...

Print, Mission Dolores

Poster. Description: Poster. Viva La Huelga "Long live the Strike" Colors: yellow, red, and black. History: These relate to the efforts of farm-workers in California to achieve a Union...

Two photographs with text, mounted on fold-out page of book. Page from 78.144.20