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Cesar Chavez visits Iowa, 1969.
Newspaper clipping announcing Cesar Chavez will attend Quad City rally supporting the grape boycott campaign.
Cook's Point economic survey report, 1963
A 14-page document including historical background of Mexican Americans from Davenport, IA and the results of a survey given to residents of Cook’s Point, an area within the southwestern city limits of Davenport primarily inhabited by families of…
Cook's Point plaque, October 12, 2002
This plaque was given to Basilisa Herrera in 2002 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the closing of the Cook's Point Barrio in Davenport, Iowa.
Dolores Carillo (Garcia), cover page of "Ain't I A Woman?", August 1970.
Article "Ain't I a Woman?" was written in August 1970 by Iowa City feminists about Mexican American women picketing the Oscar Mayer plant in Davenport, Iowa, to protest discriminatory hiring practices.
El Malcriado newsletter reports on Iowa support for the grape boycott.
El Malcriado, The Voice of the Farm Worker, (Delano, Calif.) 3, no. 1, (September 15-October 1, 1969), p. 13.
El Reportero LULAC, Vol. 1. No. 5, March 1960
El Reportero, a bilingual newspaper published by LULAC Council 10 and edited by Ernest Rodriguez, Davenport, March 1960.
Type: Newsletter
First Mexican fiesta in Davenport, Iowa
Newspaper articles about Davenport LULAC Council 10's first Mexican fiesta to support its education scholarship program, September 12, 1959.
Type: Newspaper Clipping
Flier for the 420th anniversary of the "Apparition of The Virgin of Guadalupe."
Flier for the 420th anniversary of the "Apparition of The Virgin of Guadalupe" put on by La Organizacion Guadalupena, Davenport, Iowa, 1926.
Florence Martinez in casket, 1936
Photograph of Esperanza Martinez's daughter Florence Martinez who died at the age of sixteen,