Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with Mabel Medina, Irene Tolmich, Sadie Valdez, and Edulia Garcia, older members of the Colorado Springs community. All three women describe growing up in small towns on fa...
Time Coverage: 2005-06-01
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-11-04
Description: Oral history interview with Mary Lou Bedee of Colorado Springs
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-12-03
Description: Oral history interview with Mimi Vigil recalls her childhood with her grandparents in Trujillo Creek, Colorado, traditional cultural events, and the Hispanic neighborhood she grew up in Colorado ...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-10-01
Description: Oral history interview with Luis Velez, Colorado Springs Police Chief. Velez recalls growing up in Puerto Rico and New York, his service in Vietnam, and his arrival in Colorado Springs. Velez dis...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-03-18
Description: Oral history interview with Carmen Vazquez-Guy in which she describes her childhood in Puerto Rico, her subsequent immigration to Colorado Springs, and her family's celebration of holidays. Vazqu...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-03-04
Description: Oral history interview with Ada Torres in which she describes her childhood in Puerto Rico and New York, the importance of culture during holidays, and her service in the Navy. Torres graduated w...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2003-12-19
Description: Oral history interview with Gene Sanchez, Colorado Springs information technology business owner and president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Sanchez recalls his time growing up in the San ...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-10-08
Description: Oral history interview with Lionel Rivera, Colorado Springs Mayor and former president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Rivera recalls his childhood in a large family from Santa Fe, their cul...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-11-05
Description: Oral history interview with Josie Rivera in which she describes her father's employment in the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, her attendance at Colorado Springs High School, and her early work a...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-04-16
Description: Oral history interview with Aida M. Richardson, Colorado Springs businesswoman of Puerto Rican descent. Richardson recounts her experience immigrating to the United States during her childhood an...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-09-03
Description: Oral history interview with Brenda Quinones, head of the Latino Unity Council. Quinones describes her childhood in Texas, her cultural heritage, and the Hispanic community of Colorado Springs. Qu...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-10-08
Description: Oral history interview with Manuel Navarro, Colorado Springs Fire Department Chief. Navarro describes his childhood in California, cultural traditions, religious beliefs|and various experiences w...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005
Description: Oral history interview with Joseph "Jose" Garcia
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-01-16
Description: Oral history interview with Bernie and Natalie Martinez, active participants in Colorado Springs Hispanic community. The Martinez' discuss their leadership of the Hispanic Arts Council, efforts t...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-02-18
Description: Oral history interview with Isabel Higbee and Sylvia Manzanares. Higbee was born in 1916 in New Mexico, and her daughter Manzanares was born in Trinidad, Colorado. Higbee's father was a Spanish s...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-02-06
Description: Oral history interview with George P. Guerrero, former Senior Vice President with the El Pomar Foundation and retired Army officer. Guerrero describes his childhood spent across the southwest as ...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-04-01
Description: Oral history interview with three generations of the Cordova family: Presiliano, Annie, Anthony, and Anna Cordova. Presiliano and Annie describe growing up during the Great Depression in rural Co...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-01-17
Description: Oral history interview with Michael Berniger, long time Colorado resident. Berniger describes his childhood as a son of beet farm workers, his educational background, and his service in the Medic...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-06-10
Description: Oral history interview with Jose Barrera in which he shares his family history from Mercedes, Texas, his ideas on multiculturalism, and his experiences with discrimination in the 1950s. Barrera d...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-03-22
Description: Oral history interview with Jose Aponte, director of Pikes Peak Library District. Aponte describes the challenges of facing racism as a school boy, his love of art and literature, and his career ...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-01-07
Description: Oral history interview with Carmen Abeyta, Colorado native born of Mexican immigrants who worked a farm in Montrose, Colorado. Abeyta arrived in Colorado Springs in 1972, and describes her time s...
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part three of four of an interview with Dean Tollefson, local Unitarian Universalist community chaplain. He describes the culture of Colorado Springs, the treatment of children, and the resources...
Time Coverage: ca. 1985-2005
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part two of four of an interview with Dean Tollefson, local Unitarian Universalist community chaplain. He discusses city and county governance, politics, and funding. Tollefson also describes his...
Time Coverage: ca. 1985-2005
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part one of four of an interview with Dean Tollefson, local Unitarian Universalist community chaplain. He describes the tremendous growth of Colorado Springs, city politics, and land use. Tollefs...
Time Coverage: ca. 1985-2005
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1995-06-13
Description: Supreme court orders Clinton to tear down the road dividers which give minority-owned business' more lanes than white-owned business' to get government contracts.
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1993-11-27
Description: Panel 1. The United Way logo becomes a Thanksgiving turkey with pilgrims and native Americans being thankful together. Panel 2. Minorities gather to celebrate. Wide pride and WASPs with an atti...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1992-06-21
Description: Minority father lifts small child and son smiles nearby. Good, responsible dads...not, as yet, included on the endangered species list.
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1985-05-25
Description: Eight panels comparing legislature achievements to baseball pitches. Panel 1. Hazardous transport law disintegrated. Panel 2-6. Deadly force pitch was bullet with parachute. Panel 7. Militar...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1985-05-02
Description: Senator Ray Powers got in trouble when he said minorities should act like Americans.