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Migrant Students in the Library Corner

Date: 1961
Description: Mrs. Shirley Mecha, regular teacher at Meadow Brook School, helping migrant students use resources in the "library corner."
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Front Page of El Misisipi

Date: 10 12 1808
Description: Front page (page 1) of the newspaper El Misisipi. Earliest Spanish-language periodical published in the United States.
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Dancer with Children on Dance Floor

Date: 
Description: Jesus Avila of Ballet Folklorico in a sombrero and suit with side-seam decoration on the trousers claps and dances with children in a gymnasium, probably a...
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Migrant Worker March

Date: 08 1966
Description: View of a group of migrant workers carrying signs during a march from Wautoma to Madison to promote workers' rights. Some of the people are carrying the im...
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Benediction of Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel

Date: 12 1926
Description: View across street towards a group of people entering the Santuario del Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe. A U.S. flag and a Mexican flag are draped above the en...
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Cesar Chavez Speaking

Date: 1975
Description: Cesar Chavez speaking while standing in front of a United Farm Workers banner commemorating the unionization of workers at a flower nursery on October 22, ...
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Children with Paper Flowers

Date: 1975
Description: Group portrait of seven Mexican-American children holding tissue paper flowers.
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Children in Parade

Date: 1969
Description: Children marching in a parade. One boy is wearing traditional Mexican clothing. Other children are wearing Bruce-Guadalupe Community School sweatshirts.
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Hispanic Community Concert

Date: 1973
Description: Musicians in the foreground are performing before a crowd at a Hispanic Community concert in Milwaukee.
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United Migrant Opportunity Services Sign

Date: 1973
Description: View of a United Migrant Opportunity Services sign. A logo consisting of the outline of the State of Wisconsin with two hands shaking are between laurels, ...
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Rally for Chicano Studies

Date: 1975
Description: Student rally in the Great Hall at Memorial Union to establish a Chicano Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Front Page of El Misisipi

Date: 10 12 1808
Description: Front page (page 1) of the newspaper El Misisipi. Earliest Spanish-language periodical published in the United States.
Photograph

Mass for Migrant Farm Workers

Date: 1967
Description: A priest says mass in support of migrant farm workers during a grape boycott.

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