Heritage Colorado
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Candelario Ruiz, 1978 May 14, 2006 November 15
Recollection of the Mexican Revolution and his opinion on Pancho Villa and Guillermo Baca; his emigration to the United States, the Spanish Flu of 1918, of which his mother died; the Depression.
Oral History Interview with Gregorio Aldana, 1978 June 13, 2006 November 15
Recalls life as a laborer on a hacienda before the Mexican Revolution; discrimination he encounters in Kansas; the Battle of Aguascalientes; Villa, Carranza, and Madero; the Spanish Flu of 1918, the Depression; La toma de Zacatecas.
Oral History Interview with Gregorio Garcia, 1979 September 10, 2006 November 15
Born in Mexico; came from a large family, many of whom died during the Spanish Flu of 1918; the Mexican Revolution and various personalities; came to the United States in 1925 and worked with the Sante Fe Railroads in Oklahoma; has worked in Chicago, New York, Indiana, and Buffalo; worked as a Bracero in 1954; opinions about undocumented workers in the United States and personal observattions about M?xico.
Oral History Interview with Jesús Arras, 2006 November 15, 2006 November 15
Personalities and events of the Mexican Revolution, including Pancho Villa and Francisco I. Madero, the Spanish Flu of 1918. Barber for Pancho Villa.