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"LULAC News, Councils 306-308" newsletter, July 1959

LULAC News Councils 306-308 newsletter, July 1959, describes the "Little School of 400" and reports on the Mexican Eagles team's progress in the Iowa Men's Softball Tournament.

Tags: education, fiestas, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), newsletters, sports, work

María Cano Martinez honored for longtime service to Hispanics

Tags: barrios, community service, education, Rock Island Railroad, social justice

"Memoir of María Cano Martinez" by Vincent P. Cano

"In Memory of Maria Cano Martinez" by Vincent Martinez

Memoir

Tags: family photos, immigration & naturalization, memoirs, poverty, travel, work

Tillie Gomez playing the mandolin, ca. 1953

Tags: Davenport (Iowa), music

Type: Photograph

Tillie Gomez, Davenport, Iowa, ca. 1953

Celebrating the 'American dream'

An article describing the memories of former Cook's Point barrio residents.

Tags: barrios, Civil Rights Commission, Davenport (Iowa), League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

Tillie Gomez, her father Peter Gomez, and Joe Gomez at a party at Estefania Rodriguez’s house, Davenport, Iowa, ca. 1949.

Tags: fiestas, music

Joe Gomez, Cecilia Nunez and Tillie Gomez in front of their Cook’s Point home, ca. 1945.

Tags: barrios, Davenport (Iowa), housing

Joe Gomez, Walter Hoffman, Florence Gomez, Tillie Gomez, Ronnie Tutor, Charlie Tutor, Cook’s Point, Davenport, Iowa, ca. 1942.

Iowa City freight depot and stockyards, 1917

Mexican railroad workers labored and socialized in this area near the freight depot and stockyards.

Tags: Iowa City (Iowa), maps, work

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