Hispanic Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Franklin Dunker photographs
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z10-023
Dates:
ca. 1980-2005
Frieda Garcia papers
Collection
Identifier: M222
Abstract
Frieda Garcia is a community activist and leader who has worked primarily in Boston's South End and Roxbury neighborhoods since the mid 1960s, when she first settled in Boston. She initially found work under Hubie Jones, who became a mentor, at the Roxbury Multi-Service Center. A few years later, in 1969, Jones urged her to become a part of a new organization that was forming to meet the needs of Boston's growing Hispanic community. Garcia became the first director of the resulting...
Dates:
1886-2022; Majority of material found within 1963-2014
La Alianza Hispana records
Collection
Identifier: M055
Overview
La Alianza Hispana was begun in 1968 by Ana Maria Rodríguez, teacher of English as a second language at the Winthrop Elementary School in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Noticing the impoverished conditions of her Latino students, Rodríguez, along with fellow teacher Betsy Tregar, started meeting at Denison House in Roxbury with Latino parents to begin addressing their needs. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Latino community of Boston became very active in the city's civic, social, and...
Dates:
1960-2025; Majority of material found within 1975-1995
Miren Uriarte research files
Collection
Identifier: M230
Overview
Miren Uriarte is a sociologist and professor emerita of Human Services and Latino Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. These papers document her work as a sociologist and her dissertation research on the Latino community of Boston, Massachusetts. She collected publications and organizational records pertaining to the Latino community and conducted interviews with community leaders to support her research.
Dates:
1965-1992
University Libraries videos
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015471649,TRF119719839]
Identifier: Z04-022
Dates:
1981-1993